What is TiDB?

TiDB (/’taɪdiːbi:/, "Ti" stands for Titanium) is an open-source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

See what TiDB is capable of ONLINE at the TiDB Playground.

For more details and the latest updates, see the TiDB documentation and release notes.

For future plans, see the TiDB roadmap.

Quick start

Start with TiDB Cloud

TiDB Cloud is the fully-managed service of TiDB, currently available on AWS and GCP.

Quickly check out TiDB Cloud with a free trial.

See the TiDB Cloud Quick Start Guide.

Start with TiDB

See TiDB Quick Start Guide.

Start developing with TiDB

See TiDB Developer Guide and TiDB Cloud Developer Guide.

Community

You can join the following groups or channels to discuss or ask questions about TiDB, and to keep yourself informed of the latest TiDB updates:

Seek help when you use TiDB
- TiDB Forum: English, Chinese
- Discord
- Slack channels: #everyone (English), #tidb-japan (Japanese)
- Stack Overflow (questions tagged with #tidb)
Discuss TiDB's implementation and design
- TiDB Internals forum
Get the latest TiDB news or updates
- Follow @PingCAP on Twitter
- Read the PingCAP English Blog or Chinese Blog

For support, please contact PingCAP.

Contributing

The community repository hosts all information about the TiDB community, including how to contribute to TiDB, how the TiDB community is governed, how teams are organized.

Contributions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. You can get started with one of the good first issues or help wanted issues. For more details on typical contribution workflows, see Contribute to TiDB. For more contributing information about where to start, click the contributor icon below.