PingCAP

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PingCAP is a company based in San Francisco, California, that develops TiDB, an open-source, MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database. TiDB is designed for cloud-native, data-intensive applications and supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Since its founding in 2015, PingCAP has focused on empowering engineers with speed, scale, and agility, emphasizing open-source development and innovation. TiDB offers a unified platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads, featuring elastic scaling and real-time analytics. It includes storage engines like TiKV for row storage and TiFlash for column storage, along with deployment options such as TiDB Cloud, a fully managed service, and TiDB Self-Managed for custom infrastructure. The company prioritizes customer needs and provides solutions compliant with data privacy regulations, ensuring strong consistency and high availability. TiDB is widely adopted, with thousands of companies, including LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Square, utilizing it to modernize their data stacks.

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