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Kevin Xu is general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical ...

Learn why, when, and how to use conflict-free replicated data types to bring strong eventual consistency to your geo-distributed applications Roshan Kumar is a senior product manager at Redis Labs.

The basic premise of this document is simple: to explain why distributed transactional databases are the Holy Grail of database management systems (DBMS). The promise of these systems is to provide on ...