Mattias Jonsson (Sr. Database Engineer at PingCAP ) joins us in this episode to talk about how the TiDB team worked to optimize Online DDL and what types of results we're seeing.

• TiDB DDL optimizations blog post: https://www.pingcap.com/blog/tidb-ddl-optimizations-unleashing-50x-performance-increases/
• DDL documentation: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/ddl-introduction/#how-the-online-ddl-asynchronous-change-works-in-tidb
• TiDB Roadmap: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/tidb-roadmap/
• TiDB Distributed eXecution Framework (DXF) podcast: https://youtu.be/orrnOcsooeY

If you have any feedback or suggestions for episodes, you can email us at podcast@pingcap.com.

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

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🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap

In this episode, we talk to Ben Meadowcroft (Product Lead for TiDB Core) about the latest Long-term Support (LTS) release TiDB 8.5 and discussed highlights of the release.

* TiDB 8.5 release notes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/release-8.5.0#tidb-850-release-notes
* TiDB roadmap: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/dev/tidb-roadmap
* List of expressions for Pushdown: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/expressions-pushed-down
* TiDB #vectorsearch: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/vector-search-overview#vector-search-overview
* Contributor blog post: https://medium.com/@ray.paik/tidb-8-5-is-here-b2ca09e972d5

————————— About PingCAP and TiDB —————————

PingCAP is the creator of #TiDB, an advanced, #OpenSource, #DistributedSQL database with #MySQL compatibility. TiDB powers modern applications with a streamlined tech stack, elastic scaling, real-time analytics, and continuous access to data—all in a single database.

————————— Developer resources —————————

💫TiDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/TiDB_Developer
💫Introducing TiDB: https://youtu.be/_QBrPBwFoWM
💫Quick start with TiDB: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/quick-start-with-tidb
💫TiDB in #Kubernetes: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb-in-kubernetes/stable

————————— Connect with PingCAP —————————

🔹Twitter: https://twitter.com/PingCAP
🔹LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/pingcap
🔹Facebook: https://facebook.com/pingcap2015
🔹Slack: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tidb-community&channel=everyone&ref=pingcap
🔹GitHub: https://github.com/pingcap