TiDB Blog.
This is my blog focused on TiDB-related content.
You can reach me at @morgo on Twitter.
Often new database releases come with feature sets that are not all that exciting, and may appear like they are only incremental in functionality. This usually sits okay with me, as boring usually corresponds with useful.
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A TiDB Success Story
Recently, I found myself helping out an internal team with a TiDB performance issue.
My Top Five Feature Requests
In June I wrote about my top 10 feature requests for the TiDB server. For a quick update: I am pleasantly surprised that my top 3 requests are being worked on. FOREIGN KEYS also look like they will ship by the end of the year, truly impressive work by the TiDB engineering team!
The Top 5 reasons to use TiDB
Where I work, it's up to the product owners to select which database technology they would like to use. The default choice is Aurora (MySQL 5.7), but for large databases we are starting to offer TiDB.
Experimental features in TiDB
In my previous post about my top 10 feature requests, I said that there are too many experimental features in TiDB, but that is the subject for another blog post. Well, here we are today.
This is the most underrated feature in TiDB
Despite being absent from a lot of marketing coverage, this is the feature which best differentiates TiDB from sharded MySQL. Its power is underrated, and it gets better the larger the size of your cluster.
My Top 10 Feature Requests for TiDB
I’m a TiDB developer. Historically, that has meant that I work on certain features at the request of the product team or customers. Usually this overlaps with what features I think should be worked on. But not always.