pingcap

    pingcap/tidb

    TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

    40.7K stars
    6.3K forks
    1.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 71 days ago, with 392 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #45 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 26, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a cloud-native, distributed SQL database with strong consistency, high availability, and horizontal scalability.
    • Ensures ACID compliance and seamless scaling without downtime using distributed transactions and separation of compute and storage.
    • Use for building scalable, fault-tolerant applications requiring strong transactional guarantees across distributed nodes.
    • Use for hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads combining real-time analytics with transactional data.
    • Use for deploying MySQL-compatible databases in Kubernetes or cloud environments with automated cluster management.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    TiDB (/’taɪdiːbi:/, "Ti" stands for Titanium) is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, horizontal and vertical scalability, strong consistency, and high performance.

    Excerpt from the pingcap/tidb README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    6.3K+63

    Open issues

    7.5K+778

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