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Distributed SQL: How TiDB Modernized Data Management
Thu, 25 April, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT+5:30
Join Sunny Bains — a luminary in the MySQL community and seasoned database expert now at TiDB — for an enlightening session at the GIDS. In this talk, Sunny will talk about：
- The scaling challenges with the extremely large data sets in the 100s of TB that are becoming common these days.
- The ability of a database to scale effortlessly both vertically and horizontally, giving strong transactional guarantees, plays a critical role in contemporary application development.
- TiDB, a battle tested, open-source, cost-effective multi-tenant ready, distributed SQL DBMS shaping the future of data management. The session will illuminate TiDB’s seamless MySQL compatibility, its exceptional handling of enormous datasets (100s of TBs) and superior distributed SQL architecture. Discover how global tech giants like Flipkart, Dehlivery, Databricks, AirBnB, Pinterest, Bolt etc. optimize performance and costs with TiDB’s cloud-native, scalable solutions.
- You will also learn about the most advanced Serverless MySQL - TiDB Serverless database, where you can get started on your modern database journey with minimum efforts.
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About the speaker
Sunny Bains
Software Architect. PingCAP
Sunny Bains has been working on database internals since 2001. Before joining PingCAP in 2022 he was a Senior Director of Software Development at Oracle where led the MySQL/InnoDB team. He fixed the performance bottlenecks that made InnoDB scale to where it is today. He is also the main author of the Full Text Search in InnoDB, B+Tree parallel read, DDL and more things that he can remember. Before joining Oracle in 2006 he implemented a database storage engine from scratch for a distributed database product at CTI Pty. Ltd. The networked database was used in a mission critical environment in the airline industry with very strict service level guarantees.
