Inside TiDB X: Scale to Zero, Branch in Seconds, Built for Agents
At AWS re: Invent this month, I spoke to one and only Ed Huang, Co-Founder and CTO of TiDB, powered by PingCAP, to talk about something many teams are quietly struggling with.
The last few years in data were all about unbundling.
- One database for transactions.
- One for analytics.
- One for vectors.
That worked when workloads were separate.
But AI changed the rules.
As Ed put it, today the same application, or even a single AI agent, jumps across transactions, analytics, and vector search in milliseconds. No developer wants to manage five databases. Agents cannot do that at all.
That is why…
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