The Latest in Distributed SQL - November
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As we wrap up an action-packed season of product innovation, events, and big moments for the TiDB community, this edition of In the Node brings together everything you may have missed and everything you’ll want to queue up next.
From TiDB's inclusion in the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, to fresh insights on how data platforms must evolve for the AI and agentic era, to a new eBook for financial-services leaders shaping open-source AI strategy, there’s no shortage of momentum. You’ll also find on-demand access to TiDB SCaiLE Keynotes, deep-dive labs on zero-downtime resilience and scaling beyond MySQL, plus new technical breakdowns on distributed transactions and what it really means to build an AI-agent-ready database.
And if you’re heading to AWS re:Invent, don’t miss our breakfast event with AWS or a chance to meet the team in Las Vegas. Dive in and get up to speed on everything happening across the TiDB ecosystem.
— The PingCAP Team
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TiDB SCaiLE 2025: Get Keynote Replays On-Demand
Missed the live event? No worries. You can now watch all the keynotes sessions from TiDB SCaiLE 2025 on demand. Jump into deep-dive sessions, customer stories, and technical best-practices from industry experts covering everything from AI-native architectures to cloud-scale distributed SQL.
Virtual Lab Dec 18: Scale Out MySQL with Less Ops Toil
If MySQL is hitting its limits, this upcoming live lab walks through how to scale out seamlessly with TiDB—no sharding, no rewrites, and far less operational overhead. See how to migrate workloads, run online DDL, and unlock horizontal scale with ease.
TiDB Ranked #125 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™
TiDB has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North America, ranking #125 on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™.This achievement reflects the accelerating adoption of TiDB as organizations modernize their data stacks for AI-driven and real-time workloads. From distributed SQL to innovation in scalable, high-availability infrastructure, this recognition highlights how TiDB continues to shape the future of data management.
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New eBook: Open Source AI in Financial Services
Our latest eBook explores how financial institutions leverage open-source AI to drive innovation while staying compliant. It breaks down strategic and technical considerations—from scaling models and data pipelines to managing risk, governance, and regulatory expectations.
On-Demand: Zero-Downtime Resilience Use Case Lab
This hands-on session shows how TiDB delivers continuous availability for mission-critical fintech workloads. Learn how teams handle schema changes, traffic spikes, and failures without disruption using TiDB’s distributed SQL architecture and built-in fault tolerance.
Rethinking Scale: TiDB’s Evolution Into an AI Agent Database
This hands-on session shows how TiDB delivers continuous availability for mission-critical fintech workloads. Learn how teams handle schema changes, traffic spikes, and failures without disruption using TiDB’s distributed SQL architecture and built-in fault tolerance.
ACID Transactions in Distributed Databases
Dive into the mechanics behind distributed transactions in TiDB. This article breaks down how TiDB maintains full ACID guarantees across a distributed system using Percolator, Raft, and optimized commit paths. Get a clear look at how TiDB ensures consistency, reliability, and performance at scale.
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Dec 4: Breakfast with TiDB at AWS re:Invent
If you’re in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, kick off your final day with a complimentary breakfast. This intimate session explores how real-time, scalable data platforms are evolving to support next-generation AI and autonomous agents. Manus will share insights from tackling the “1 Billion Agents Problem,” including what leading agentic AI teams need from their databases, the data-infrastructure principles driving this shift, and how to prepare your stack.
Join us Dec 4, 9–11 AM—breakfast, networking, and executive-level conversations included. Seats are limited.
TiDB at AWS re:Invent Las Vegas
We’re heading to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2024 — visit us at Booth 1426 to meet our database experts, see live demos of TiDB in action, and get free, tailored technical advice. Grab some swag and let’s chat about your next-gen data infrastructure.