On September 22, 2022, the PingCAP User Summit, an enterprise-level open source distributed database manufacturer, was held in Beijing. With the theme of “Now Determines the Future”, this summit brings together cutting-edge data technology and business insights from CCB Financial Technology, Yum China, Transsion Holdings, Tiger International, Ping An Technology, Bank of Hangzhou, China Life Insurance, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Neusoft Group, CEC Jinxin, Jiahe Meikang, Digital China, Yunxi Technology, Tianyi Cloud and many other heavyweight PingCAP customers, partners and industry leaders shared their choices in digital transformation and data value innovation, and discussed how to The future-oriented agile data service platform realizes business acceleration and innovation.

Under the current accelerated digital transformation and rapid changes in the economic situation, coping with the challenges of uncertainty has become an important issue for enterprises. Especially for data-driven enterprises, they are facing severe challenges from data architecture. Liu Qi, founder and CEO of PingCAP, said at the conference that a distributed database is a highly complex system, and the combination with the cloud further increases the complexity. The survival of distributed databases depends on managing complexity. TiDB’s open and divide-and-conquer architecture manages complexity, making it the choice of more users. Today, when HTAP has become the mainstream of the industry, PingCAP continues to lead the trend of HTAP with a simple and real-time experience. In the course of seven years of development, PingCAP has formed a new paradigm to help customers succeed, and continues to serve customers’ success with the help of “independent open source + continuous leadership + future-oriented”.

Liu Qi, founder and CEO of PingCAP

Why can TiDB become the common choice of leading customers in the industry?

As the largest catering company in China, Yum China started its digital transformation and construction many years ago. Ms. Zhang Lei, CTO of Yum China, introduced at the conference that transactions in the catering industry have obvious peaks and lows. For example, the transaction volume of the well-known KFC marketing campaign “Crazy Thursday” far exceeds the usual trading days. The company can adjust computing resources in a timely manner according to business needs, helping to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Yum China has implemented open source technologies such as TiDB in user, payment, messaging and other business platforms, as well as in enterprise financial systems. PingCAP also announced at the conference that it will join forces with Yum China to establish “Yum China✖️ PingCAP Distributed Database Joint Laboratory”, based on the technical and ecological advantages of both parties, to jointly explore the innovation and implementation of forward-looking technologies, and improve the catering industry. Digital service levels and capabilities.

“Yum China✖️ PingCAP Distributed Database Joint Laboratory” officially unveiled

As a financial technology company, CCB Jinke needs to ensure that the service capabilities of the back-end system can be improved without affecting the existing transaction model in the transformation of key core businesses in the banking industry. Xing Lei, vice president of CCB Jinke Basic Technology Center, introduced that from the TiKV distributed key-value database in 2020, to the Chaos Mesh cloud-native chaos engineering platform in 2021, and to the production of TiDB HTAP in the business system in 2022, PingCAP With customer success, open source, future-oriented technical architecture and service system, it deeply participated in the system upgrade of CCB Jinke, successfully withstood the pressure of more than 40,000 TPS and operated stably.

Xing Lei, Vice President of CCB Jinke Basic Technology Center

During the meeting, financial users such as Bank of Hangzhou, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and China Life Property & Casualty Insurance also supported the core business system through the TiDB distributed database, and enhanced the financial system by developing a data architecture that is easy to use, elastically expandable, self-healing from failure, and active in the same city. reliability and business continuity. The core system of China Life Property and Casualty Insurance is also upgraded from a centralized to a distributed database based on TiDB, which greatly improves the business processing performance under massive data and high concurrency conditions.

Continue to lead, build a PB-level online data service platform

As a one-stack data service platform, TiDB has been committed to improving the agility of users’ business. In the past two years, the core performance and stability of its products have been continuously improved, making it the choice of leading companies in various industries. The TPCC performance of TiDB OLTP is improved by 200%-300%, the real-time HTAP performance is improved by 200%-300%, and the performance of core scenarios has also made continuous breakthroughs. For example, the core load delay optimization of bank transfers is as much as 4 times, and the logistics and other ultra-high throughput real-time The mixed load performance of online transactions, read and write, has been improved by more than 100%, ensuring a smooth experience for hundreds of millions of users.

Li Dong (Ph.D.), China Saibao Laboratory

Li Dong (Ph.D.) of China Saibao Lab shared a speech titled “Research on China’s Database Industry Development”. In his sharing, he pointed out that the current development trend of database technology integration is obvious, the demand for cloud native and multi-cloud is further enhanced, the database and big data are being deeply integrated and applied, the separation of storage and computing has become the mainstream of development, and HTAP has also become a new focus. PingCAP has achieved a structural transition through independent innovation technologies such as distributed and cloud, which is a breakthrough way for China’s database industry to learn from and think about.

TiDB realized the large-scale expansion of online transaction processing as early as version 1.0, laying a solid foundation for HTAP capabilities; version 4.0 realized preliminary HTAP capabilities, OLAP and OLTP partitions were independent and physically isolated; version 5.0 was based on the original HTAP engine The introduction of the MPP architecture further improves the parallel computing and analysis capabilities under massive data, supports the integration of Spark, Flink and other technology stacks under the same architecture, and becomes a distributed database with complete real-time HTAP capabilities, helping enterprises improve the timeliness of key businesses.

Tang Liu, Vice President of R&D at PingCAP

According to Tang Liu, vice president of R&D at PingCAP, TiDB adheres to open source, openness, and customer priority, and is transparent about everything that can be transparent, and faces complex and diverse environments with users. With the help of open source ecology for rapid iteration, to respond to business uncertainty with agility, rapid iteration and rapid polishing, stable improvement of core capabilities, stable output, continuous polishing, and providing stable and maintainable LTS (Long Term Service) for enterprise-level users ) Version. PingCAP has also built a professional service support system, such as a financial architect team, an automatic diagnosis and tuning team, and a customer support team, to escort the business of enterprise-level users.

In the future, PingCAP will continue to explore aspects such as DB microservice, cloud native, and intelligence, and continue to lead the evolution of data services. Among them, DB microservice can realize the service of any separable components of the database, create a PB-level online data service platform, and provide higher scale effects, better fault tolerance and stronger risk control methods.

The starting point for building customer trust: autonomous open source

Independent open source is the meta-choice of PingCAP, and it is also the starting point for building trust with customers. PingCAP has taken open source as its core strategy since its inception. Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered a speech at the summit, saying that TiDB adheres to the development model of independence and open source, builds systematic advantages with the help of efficient collaboration of open source, and creates a database open source community with international influence. In the new round of reform and development of the database industry , actively participate in global competition, seize the right to speak and dominate.

At present, the TiDB project has gathered 1,895 contributors around the world, covering 45 countries and regions. Among them, contributors other than PingCAP account for more than 75%, of which nearly 20% are corporate decision-makers, covering finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, Internet, logistics and other industries. Open source lowers the threshold of trust and obtains the ultimate user scenarios in a timely manner. The ultimate scenario promotes global community technical collaboration, so that the innovation capability and ecology of TiDB products can be quickly iterated.

PingCAP “open source” seven years of open source entrepreneurial experience, and at the summit, it first published a new book “Working with Open Source: Demystifying PingCAP’s Seven Years of Entrepreneurial Practice”, explaining the significance of open source technology and culture to the survival and development of a new generation of technology-driven enterprises. The open source model also plays an important role in solving the problem of database talent shortage. PingCAP has formed academic cooperative relationships with more than 250 universities around the world in terms of academics, and has been the exclusive co-organizer of VLDB Summer School for two consecutive years, cultivating distributed databases for universities across the country. Talent makes a contribution.

“Walking with Open Source: Demystifying Seven Years of PingCAP’s Entrepreneurial Practice” was first published

Connecting China with the world

At present, more than 3,000 companies around the world have chosen TiDB. Whether in gaming, finance, logistics, Internet or intelligent manufacturing and other industries, based on application scenarios such as large-scale OTLP expansion, real-time HTAP analysis, etc., PingCAP’s service users have gradually extended from China to the world, covering Japan, Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe and other regions . Since its official commercial use in May 2022, TiDB Cloud has provided fully managed cloud database services for many users around the world, easily supporting various digital innovation scenarios, and liberating enterprises from complex tasks such as back-end infrastructure operation and maintenance and data backup.

Transsion Holdings Mobile Internet CTO History Youth League Committee

Transsion Holdings is a provider of smart terminal products and mobile internet services that is committed to becoming the favorite among consumers in emerging markets. In cooperation with PingCAP, it migrated the overall service structure of its mobile store to TiDB. Shi Tuan Committee, CTO of Transsion Holdings Mobile Internet, said that PingCAP enables Transsion Holdings to devote more resources to business promotion, freeing up middle- and back-office work, and greatly reducing costs. TiDB’s features such as horizontal expansion, fault self-recovery, strong data consistency, and high compatibility have helped Transsion Holdings achieve technological advancement, improve user experience, and accelerate the platform and vertical evolution of its technical architecture.

Liu Kai, Vice President of Tiger International Technology

Tiger International, as a world-renowned international securities firm, holds 59 licenses or qualifications in Singapore, the United States, Hong Kong, Australia and other places, and operates in many places around the world. Liu Kai, vice president of technology at Tiger International, said that only truly global companies can serve global customers. Based on globalized business, Tiger International’s data architecture and data security are also facing challenges from globalization. TiDB can solve the complexity of the system architecture, and at the same time solve business challenges and data security challenges through low latency and strong data consistency.

In order to make TiDB accessible to developers, PingCAP also released Serverless Tier and TiDB Playground at this conference, providing each developer with a free cloud database on TiDB Cloud. Quickly experience HTAP in minutes.

Build a multi-data ecosystem

PingCAP has created a “galaxy-style” partner system through the open source model. Any individual, company, data platform, and cloud infrastructure can be connected through the TiDB open source community to continuously mine and create business value. As more users and enterprises join the “Ti Galaxy”, the PingCAP ecosystem has also grown into an enterprise-level multi-data ecosystem covering digital transformation enterprises and digital native enterprises.

Ping An Technology and PingCAP have jointly created UbiSQL, a commercial distribution version of TiDB. The two parties continue to deepen cooperation with a more open attitude, and further adapt to the needs of financial scenarios while realizing the evolution of R&D capabilities, solution capabilities, and delivery, operation and maintenance capabilities, and complete technological output. The breakthrough of 1 + 1 > 2 is achieved.

At the conference, Chen Yuqi, vice president of PingCAP, joined hands with ecological partners such as Digital China, CEC Jinxin, Tianyi Cloud, Neusoft Group, Jiahe Meikang, and Yunxi Technology to open a new chapter in PingCAP’s multi-data ecosystem, and work together for banks and insurance companies. , securities, telecommunications, government and enterprises, retail and catering, manufacturing, medical and other digital transformation enterprises, as well as digital native enterprises such as SaaS, financial technology, games, e-commerce, etc., provide complete enterprise-level solutions and services.