100% agree with this, if you haven’t understood the tradeoffs, you don’t get it.

The long-awaited full-text search feature has finally been released for TiDB Cloud Serverless! (Although it is still available in limited regions.)

The “#define ever ;;” is a COBOL programmer trying to write C/C++

I was surprised by the 5K lines part. The 5K lines are just for running a single process for a single user. The IO is handled by dedicated Linux nodes. The messy part of an OS is scheduling and IO.

How do you reason about your system's correctness? Decentralized thoughts by Heidi Howard on how to reason about the correctness of real distributed systems decentralizedthoughts.github.io/2025-05-23-sma…

Had a technical discussion over lunch in Jakarta, ended up using cutlery, eg., the glass represented S3 , to describe the new TiDB architecture 🙂. Great discussion.

Snowflake Unistore was announced with great fanfare 3 years ago. Did the project fail and so they had to acquihire a team to run regular Postgres?

First test flight in 1964, so design is from the 50s.

OMG! TiDB is so easy to scale and manage!

TiDB uses Jepsen among many other tests. It has helped uncover many bugs in TiDB, this time the QA team found a bug in the connector used by Jepsen: The PR is here: github.com/pingcap/jepsen… The problem in the connector is here. github.com/clojure/java.j…

While discussing TiFlash, its MPP mode came up in the discussion, I had a high level view that it supports Broadcast Hash Join, Shuffled Hash Join etc. I decided to play around with it, to learn more, and found this page very useful: docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/us…

Started serious coding after a month or so, Cursor seems to have gotten better at some mundane things like code formatting and fixing comments.

In the latest episode of #DataintheHallway, we chat with Kabilesh P.R. (Founding Partner at Mydbops) about what’s fueling #TiDB’s growth across India. 🇮🇳 🎧 Tune in to the full episode: youtu.be/W7tx50V6b2U #Mydbops #IndiaTech #Database #Data #MySQL

Great article, worth reading. jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jem…

Probably because SQLite is now being used more as SQLNotLite

Add column is instant in most databases these days, one thing that cannot be made instant is create index. Nothing comes close to TiDB AFAIK, 40T table add index 50 minutes.

QuickC

Broken a lot of hearts today.

I'm not a big fan of too many tuning knobs in software, this is a case where an obscure RocksDB parameter was used to improve performance 100x for some use cases. pingcap.com/blog/tikv-writ…

Interesting variation, wonder how if it will work well on write heavy and NUMA architectures? Seems to be optimized for low contention and read heavy loads.