This document provides an overview and agenda for introducing TiDB, an open source distributed SQL database inspired by Google's Spanner and F1 projects. The summary includes:
- TiDB is a distributed SQL database that is compatible with MySQL and provides horizontal scalability, high availability, and strong consistency with its key components TiDB, TiKV, and PD.
- The agenda covers an introduction to PingCAP, the company behind TiDB, a technical walkthrough of the TiDB architecture, and a use case example with Mobike, one of TiDB's customers with over 200 million users.
- A live demo of running TiDB on Google Kubernetes Engine is also included on the agenda along with discussions of