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TiDB is a prime example of an intrinsically scalable and reliable distributed SQL database architecture. Here’s how it works. In the good old days, databases had a relatively simple job: help with the ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

You must have come across the term ‘scalability’ lots of time at your workplace. Scalability means the ability of any system to scale up or down depending on the workload. On the same lines, database ...