PingCAP announces Public Preview of TiDB Cloud USA - English Share this article A fully managed & scalable TiDB service that delivers scalable SQL and real-time insights SAN MATEO, Calif., May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- PingCAP today announced the Public Preview launch of their fully managed Database as a Service, TiDB Cloud. TiDB is a MySQL compatible, open source, scalable, distributed SQL database that can handle both OLTP and OLAP workloads. With TiDB Cloud, customers can now easily use TiDB on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud to quickly build modern, mission critical applications. As organizations face more data to store, process and manage, single machine databases are quickly running into physical limits for storage and processing power. Traditional sharding mechanisms are unwieldy and hard to maintain as business grows, with an increasing number of MySQL databases to manage. TiDB solves these problems transparently for the user through its distributed architecture, while maintaining MySQL compatibility. TiDB Cloud goes a step further by making deployment, management and maintenance even simpler, through a web-based management interface in the cloud. Now, after a 6-month private beta test, TiDB Cloud is ready for its next phase in Public Preview.