What is TiDB

TiDB is an open-source distributed relational database developed by PingCAP. It is positioned as a hybrid database product for online transaction processing and online analytical processing HTAP. It is compatible with the MySQL protocol, supports horizontal scalability, and has strong consistency and high availability. UCloud Global is based on PingCAP’s TiDB, which implements the productization of TiDB in the public cloud, providing users with two forms of products. TiDB: Deploy with one click according to the user-specified node specifications, manage the cluster flexibly, and provide high-performance data that is easy to access; TiDB Serverless: Serverless high-performance database service that doesn’t require attention to the underlying resource pool, on-demand use, and easy access.

TiDB: Prepayment model, that is, payment at the time of new instance creation. Suitable for long-term needs with stable business flow, offering hourly, monthly, and annual prepayments, the longer the purchase cycle, the more cost-effective the price.

TiDB Serverless: Post-payment model, that is, first apply for resource use on demand, and fees will be charged based on your actual resource usage at the time of settlement. Suitable for business scenarios that need flexible management of computing resources and storage resources, and need to make post-payments based on actual usage, such as short-term businesses, applications with large traffic fluctuations, large-scale data processing, etc.