This article explains how Cloud TiDB, a cloud‑native NewSQL database launched by UCloud and PingCAP, leverages Kubernetes integration, operators, and custom volume management to provide elastic scaling, high availability, and efficient lifecycle management for distributed workloads.
The event showcases three technical talks covering the evolution of Hujiang's storage architecture, the transformation of the Dianrong payment system into a public service, and an introduction to the TiSpark project that integrates TiDB with Spark, highlighting design choices, trade‑offs, and future directions.
TiDB’s founder Huang Dongxu recounts the journey of building a MySQL‑compatible, distributed database—detailing early challenges, architectural decisions, the extensive testing, the adoption of Go, Rust, Raft, RocksDB, and the emphasis on metrics, cloud‑native design, and open‑source community collaboration.
This article summarizes the most recent releases of major NoSQL and NewSQL databases—including MongoDB 3.4, Redis 3.0/3.2, HBase 1.2.4, Apache Geode 1.0, TiDB RC1, and the final update of RethinkDB—highlighting key new capabilities, performance improvements, and operational enhancements.
This article presents a comprehensive technical overview of TiDB, a NewSQL distributed database, covering its architecture, SQL layer, KV engine, distributed transaction mechanisms, code implementation in Go, open‑source practices, and future roadmap.
