Silverlake Axis has a core banking and loan product called SILK, used by most banks in Southeast Asia, like in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. The new product I'm working on, Mobius, is a replacement for SILK, which runs on a mainframe. Mobius uses TiDB, along with Java and other frameworks.
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A financial-grade distributed database
High requirements of hardware disks for storage nodes.
It solves the challenges of financial-grade high availability and the inability to scale traditional single node databases.
TiDB is offering strong stability and scalability in our business
Easy to adopt data from MySQL.
Easy to be deployed in Kubernetes cluster using TiDB operator.
Offering OLAP features speeding up our statistics.
There is a certain threshold for operation and maintenance.
We need a central database containing all data together in difference service to do some statistics and analysis.
TiDB is MySQL-compatible and solves the problem of scaling up large MySQL instances.
TiDB provides a relatively convenient way to scale up and down.
TiDB requires powerful hardware.
TiDB genuine review
TiDB is a good distributed database
TiDB is enabling critical online services and real-time data analytics with its high performance.
Native high-availablity arichitecture thta supports the disaster recovery business needs.
A fully managed DBaaS with cost effective
2. On-demand expansion nodes for peak traffic.
3. Mysql ecosystem compatibility.
4. supports processing both TP and AP workloads.
2. Currently does not support azure.
Great choice of DB if you need strong consistency, and scales.
TiDB Streamlines Large Data and Heavy Queries
Best for serverless computing
TiFlash testing performance is not good enough, and it requies much higher hardware resource.
Free version has limited capabilities
With TiDB distributed database, we have built a reliable, flexible and scalable data platform.
Open source, uses a distributed log and is based on a distributed system but doesn't support functions and procedures, which Oracle and other databases do
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
What is most valuable?
TiDB selections are fast, and it handles collections and solutions well. Vertical and horizontal scaling are also good features.
Additionally, it uses a distributed log and is based on a distributed system, which many customers like. It is also open source and free, which is another major advantage of this product.
What needs improvement?
While using TiDB Cloud, I noticed things I don't like as a developer. For instance, it doesn't support functions and procedures, which Oracle and other databases do. This means that for table-to-table operations, like data manipulation and functionality, I need to take that data to the application side, process it manually, and then re-insert it.
Oracle and other databases have functions and procedures to handle this within the database itself. This is a key feature that I, as a developer, would like to see in TiDB Cloud.
We are implementing our product for a major bank in Malaysia and setting up a disaster recovery environment. The client requires the ability to replicate auto-increment sequences from the production environment to the disaster recovery environment.
This is not currently possible. We had a call with TiDB, and they said this feature is not available. They advised us to handle the auto-increment indexes from the application side. This means we are doing most things from the application side, which is a challenge we face with TiDB.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using it for one year for a project at a product-based company named Silverlake Axis.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I've never seen downtime with this product. I would rate the stability an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's scalable. We can scale it both vertically and horizontally. It's very good that way.
I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team is responsive. Whenever we have a query or something related to infrastructure, they come to the meeting and try to resolve our issue.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's open source.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate it a seven out of ten.
Because it is open source, I can recommend it to those who are looking for a cheap product and don't want to invest heavily in a database.
However, if they use TiDB, they need to plan their development so that most of the logic is written on the application side, as TiDB does not support features like functions and procedures. If they are comfortable with that approach, then it's fine.