# TiDB, powered by PingCAP

> PingCAP is the company behind TiDB, an open-source, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database built for hybrid transactional and analytical workloads. TiDB scales horizontally across cloud and on-prem deployments, and now powers AI agent workloads through TiDB X with built-in vector search.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founders:** Max Liu (Co-founder & CEO), Edward Huang (Co-founder & CTO), Dylan Cui (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 600
- **Products:** TiDB, TiDB Cloud, TiDB X, TiKV, TiFlash
- **Notable:** 2026 Gold Stevie Award winner for TiDB X (Big Data & Reporting Analytics), Ranked #125 on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 with 675% growth, TiKV graduated from CNCF

## Products & services

- **TiDB** — Open-source distributed SQL database with MySQL compatibility, horizontal scale, and HTAP capabilities.
- **TiDB Cloud** — Fully managed TiDB DBaaS on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, including Serverless, Dedicated and BYOC tiers.
- **TiDB X** — Next-generation architecture making object storage the backbone of distributed SQL with native AI capabilities.
- **TiKV** — Distributed transactional key-value store, a graduated CNCF project, originally built at PingCAP.
- **TiFlash** — Columnar storage engine that gives TiDB real-time analytical query power without ETL.
- **TiDB AI Developer Toolkit** — AI SDK, Reasoning Engine and MCP Server for building agentic apps on TiDB.

## Achievements

- 2026 Gold Stevie Award winner for TiDB X (Big Data & Reporting Analytics)
- Ranked #125 on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 with 675% growth
- TiKV graduated from CNCF
- TiDB GitHub repo has 35,000+ stars and 1,800+ contributors
- Used in production by Pinterest, Plaid, Bolt, Square, Atlassian

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Won Gold Stevie Award for TiDB X in the American Business Awards.
- **2025-11** — Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (#125, 675% growth).
- **2025-10** — Launched TiDB X with object-storage-native architecture and AI capabilities at SCaiLE Summit.
- **2025-10** — Released TiDB AI SDK, Reasoning Engine and MCP Server with OpenAI, Cohere, Gemini, NVIDIA integrations.

## Links

- Website: https://pingcap.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pingcap
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
- GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PingCAP
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015

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Last updated: 2026-05-23