2017 Reflection and Gratitude

In open source, we trust!

2017 has witnessed the growth of PingCAP, from Beijing to Silicon Valley, and the evolution of TiDB, from RC1 to the 1.0 release, and then to the 1.0.5 release. As our CEO Max said in the TiDB 1.0 announcement, “because of the hard work and dedication of not just every member of our team, but also every contributor, user, and partner in our open source community.”

As 2017 draws to a close, let’s take a look back upon the highlights that shape PingCAP and TiDB:

Community

• 1818 forks
• 13000+ stars
• 1106 watches
• 210+ contributors
• 41 weekly updates
• 26 PingCAP Infra Meetups
• 1 of the gRPC popular projects
• Listed on the CNCF Cloud Native Landscape
• Merged 14 PRs to RocksDB and 5 PRs to etcd
• 40 changed files in 1 PR from Samsung Electronics

Cloud

• A cloud-native HTAP Database on UCloud and Tencent Cloud

Product

• 30+ customers in APAC region
• 1.0 Release, marking the production readiness of TiDB
• 1st version of TiSpark: sitting SparkSQL on top of TiKV. Distributed HTAP made possible

Meetup

• 1st Rust China Meetup
• Siddon’s talk at Rust meetup in Bay area
• Siddon’s talk at RocksDB meetup in Bay area
• 2nd invitation to Percona Live for Speech (Edward)

Company

• $15M in Series B funding led by China Growth Capital
• 1st of many steps towards a global impact by opening the Silicon Valley office

We connect, contribute, collaborate, and we will never stop.

Thank you all, our beloved contributors, customers, and partners, for an amazing 2017!

Hello, 2018!

See the following infographic for a recap of PingCAP in 2017: