PingCAP
Empower engineers and enable business value with speed, scale, and agility through innovative distributed database solutions.
At a Glance
- Enterprise Software
- Financial Services
- Retail/E-commerce
- Gaming
- +1 more
AI Tools by PingCAP
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AutoFlow
Open Source Graph RAG Platform
TiDB
Open Source Distributed SQL Database
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Latest News
PingCAP Wins 2026 Gold Stevie Award for TiDB X
TiDB Spring Product Updates: Powering AI & SaaS at Global Scale
PingCAP Named a 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Cloud DBMS
Max Liu Named a Top 50 Software CEO of 2024
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) version of TiDB, providing elastic scale and high availability.
A cloud-native architecture designed for AI, SaaS, and modern growth, featuring elastic scale and cost-efficiency.
An open-source Graph RAG-based conversational knowledge base tool built on TiDB Vector and LlamaIndex.
Market Position
PingCAP positions TiDB as a superior alternative to traditional MySQL sharding and a cloud-native competitor to databases like Amazon Aurora, Google Spanner, and CockroachDB, emphasizing its HTAP capabilities and AI readiness.
Leadership
Founders
Max Liu (Liu Qi)
Co-founder and CEO. Previously an infrastructure engineer at Sogou and Wandoujia. Co-creator of TiDB.
Edward Huang (Huang Dongxu)
Co-founder and CTO. Previously an infrastructure engineer at Wandoujia. Architect of TiDB and former core developer of Codis.
Dylan Cui (Cui Qiu)
Co-founder. Previously an infrastructure engineer at Sogou and Wandoujia.
Executive Team
Max Liu
Co-founder & CEO
Previously at Sogou and Wandoujia.
Edward Huang
Co-founder & CTO
Previously at Wandoujia; architect of TiDB.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
PingCAP was founded by three infrastructure engineers who were frustrated by the challenges of scaling traditional MySQL databases. They sought to create TiDB, a distributed SQL database that combines the best of both SQL and NoSQL worlds to solve the 'database scaling nightmare.'
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open-core model with subscriptions for enterprise support, proprietary features, and TiDB Cloud (usage-based/DBaaS).
Pricing Tiers
Ideal for small applications and development; includes free monthly credits.
High-performance, dedicated instances for mission-critical production workloads.
Target Markets
- Enterprise Software
- Financial Services
- Retail/E-commerce
- Gaming
- Technology/SaaS
- High-growth SaaS applications
- Financial services (real-time transactions)
- E-commerce (peak season scaling)
- Gaming (global player data)
- AI agents and knowledge bases
- ENGIE
- SHAREit
- Manus
- Dify