PingCAP
Empowering engineers to build modern applications with an open-source, distributed SQL database that handles both transactional and analytical workloads at scale.
At a Glance
- Financial Services
- E-commerce
- SaaS
- Gaming
- +2 more
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TiDB
Open Source Distributed SQL Database
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Latest News
PingCAP Honored as Gold Stevie Award Winner in 2026 American Business Awards
PingCAP Launches TiDB X and New AI Capabilities at SCaiLE Summit 2025
PingCAP Unveils Major TiDB Enhancements for Global Scale and AI-Driven Applications
TiDB 8.0 Released with Enhanced Distributed SQL Performance
Products & Services
An open-source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads.
A fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) providing scalable, high-availability SQL database on AWS and Google Cloud.
A distributed transactional key-value store that serves as the storage layer for TiDB (CNCF Graduated project).
A columnar storage extension for TiDB that enables real-time analytical queries on transactional data.
Market Position
Positioned as a modern alternative to traditional monolithic databases (MySQL, Oracle) and a major competitor to other distributed SQL databases like CockroachDB and YugabyteDB, with a unique focus on HTAP.
Leadership
Founders
Max Liu (Qi Liu)
Co-founder and CEO. Previously Infrastructure Lead at Wandoujia, focusing on large-scale distributed systems.
Edward (Ed) Huang (Dongxu Huang)
Co-founder and CTO. Previously Infrastructure Engineer at Wandoujia and core maintainer of Codis. Known for being a hacker and database architect.
Dylan Cui (Qiu Cui)
Co-founder. Previously Infrastructure Lead at Wandoujia, specializing in distributed storage and infrastructure management.
Executive Team
Max Liu
CEO
Founding CEO with deep expertise in distributed infrastructure and system engineering.
Edward Huang
CTO
Co-founder and chief architect behind TiDB; renowned hacker in the infrastructure community.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
PingCAP was founded by three infrastructure engineers at Wandoujia who were frustrated by the limitations of traditional database sharding. They sought to build a database that offered the scalability of NoSQL with the transactional integrity and familiarity of MySQL.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based for TiDB Cloud (DBaaS) and enterprise licenses/support for self-managed deployments.
Pricing Tiers
Includes 25 GiB of row storage and basic features for developers.
Billed based on Request Capacity Units (RCUs) and storage used; scales automatically.
Approximately $1,376/month for a 4 vCPU baseline; production-ready with dedicated resources.
For mission-critical workloads with advanced support and higher performance guarantees.
Target Markets
- Financial Services
- E-commerce
- SaaS
- Gaming
- Logistics
- Telecommunications
- High-concurrency transactions
- Real-time data analytics
- E-commerce order management
- Financial ledger systems
- Gaming backend infrastructure
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