TiSpark: More Data Insights, No More ETL (opens in new tab)

When we released TiDB 2.0 in April, part of that announcement also included the release of TiSpark 1.0–an integral part of the TiDB platform that makes complex analytics on “fresh” transactional data possible. Since then, many people in the TiDB community have been asking for more information about TiSpark. In this post, I will explain the motivation, inner workings, and future roadmap of this project. Motivation The motivation behind building TiSpark was to enable real-time analytics on TiDB...