TiDB - Distributed NewSQL database compatible with MySQL protocol

TiDB is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1 and Google Spanner, TiDB supports the best features of both traditional RDBMS and NoSQL. It is horizontally scalable, grow TiDB as your business grows. You can increase the capacity simply by adding more machines.

Think of TiDB as a single-machine RDBMS. You can start a transaction that crosses multiple machines without worrying about consistency. TiDB makes your application code simple and robust.

It is compatible with MySQL, you can replace MySQL with TiDB to power your application without changing a single line of code in most cases. TiDB supports many popular storage engines in single-machine mode. You can choose from GolevelDB, LevelDB, RocksDB, LMDB, BoltDB and even more to come.