Company: PingCAP, Silicon Valley, CA
Nomination Submitted by: Firebrand Communications
Company Description: PingCAP is the creator of TiDB, the most advanced open source, distributed SQL database. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database. With these advanced capabilities, growing businesses can focus on the future instead of complex data infrastructure management.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: Big Data & Reporting Analytics Solution
 Nomination Title: PingCAP TiDB 8.5
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Written answers to the questions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
PingCAP released TiDB 8.5 on December 19, 2024. The latest version includes all features and improvements released in 2024 for enhanced monitoring and insights, improved scalability, and vector search support.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
Total 316 words used.
TiDB is one of the world’s most popular open-source distributed SQL databases, known for its speed, scalability, and reliability, with a loosely coupled design that scales out almost infinitely, giving it the power to manage data stores petabytes in size. It provides a level of performance previously reserved for the largest of the large and richest of the rich—companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. With its familiar MySQL interface, it brings hyperscale performance within reach of millions of developers worldwide.
TiDB 8.5’s signature new feature is vector search, empowering applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), recommendation systems, and natural language processing, making TiDB a powerful tool for AI-driven enterprises while eliminating the need for additional databases or technical stacks. WIth TiDB, businesses can run transactional workloads, real-time analytics and AI applications on the same platform, accelerating development, simplifying maintenance, improving analytics and reducing costs.
Other new features in 8.5.
PingCAP also provides TiDB 8.5 in hosted (TiDB Cloud Dedicated) and serverless (TiDB Cloud Serverless) formats for simplified management and greater cost-efficiency.
For more on TiDB 8.5, see:
Product details on 8.5: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/release-8.5.0
Product details on 8.4: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/release-8.4.0
Product details on 8.3: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/release-8.3.0
Product details on 8.2: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/release-8.2.0
Product details on 8.1.0: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/release-8.1.0\
TiDB Product page: https://www.pingcap.com/tidb/
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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Adoption
Over 3,000 adopters globally use TiDB or PingCAP’s flagship hosted solution, TiDB Cloud. TiDB is trusted by leaders in banking, fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, and gaming including LinkedIn, Pinterest, Databricks, Airbnb, Plaid, Flipkart, and Bolt. Additionally, developers have created 300K+ TiDB Cloud Serverless clusters.
Testimonials
Plaid: Migrating 41 Services from Amazon Aurora in One Year
https://www.pingcap.com/blog/accelerating-distributed-sql-adoption-plaid-amazon-aurora-migration/
“With TiDB, we can do upgrades with zero downtime. That’s not something we were previously able to achieve on the former hosted MySQL system we were working with.” — Zander Hill, Experienced Software Engineer, Plaid
Pinterest: Modernizing a Graph Service with Distributed SQL
https://www.pingcap.com/blog/why-pinterest-modernized-graph-service-distributed-sql/
“We saw a 3-5X query P99 query reduction after onboarding a full terabyte use case with 14 indexes, 20K read qps and 400K write qps. TiDB has met the growing requirements of our shopping and ads customers, and we plan to migrate all of our 100+ Hbase use cases to TiDB, including our offline analytics.” — Ankita Wagh, Senior Software Engineer, Pinterest
Rakuten: a journey to distributed SQL
https://www.pingcap.com/blog/revolutionizing-loyalty-programs-rakuten-distributed-sql/
As the backbone of a vast digital ecosystem, Rakuten’s cashback program needed a robust and scalable database solution to meet explosive growth and engagement demands. Rakuten chose TiDB for its RDBMS strengths (ACID compliance, SQL support) and NoSQL scalability.
Company achievements:
PingCAP Included as an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems:
https://www.pingcap.com/press-release/tidb-honorable-mention-2024-gartner-magic-quadrant-cloud-dbms/
PingCAP’s Max Liu Named a Top 50 Software CEO of 2024:
https://www.pingcap.com/press-release/tidb-max-liu-named-top-50-software-ceo-2024/
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
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TiDB overview: https://www.pingcap.com/tidb/
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