Data in the Hallway

Brian Foster, Daniel van Eeden, and Ray Paik

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A podcast series where we discuss community, database, open source, and other topics. Email us at podcast@pingcap.com for your feedback or suggestions.

JUL 9

The backbone of RAG is structured data

We welcome back Sam Dillard to this episode and discuss RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and how TiDB can support developers working on RAG-based applications. Ask anything about #tidb at https://tidb.ai/ TiDB Chat2Query: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidbcloud/tidb-cloud-glossary/#chat2query 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 ————————— 🔹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

33 min
JUN 25

Talking Hyper (Hybrid Physical Design Advisor)

In this episode, we welcome back Ahmad Ghazal (Distinguished Engineer at PingCAP) to discuss recently published IEEE paper on Hyper (Hybrid Physical Design Advisor). Link to the paper from the 2025 IEEE 41st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)Let your database recommend indexesIf 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 ————————— 🔹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

22 min
JUN 10

TiDB's success in India

In this episode, we sit down with Kabilesh P.R. (Founding Partner at Mydbops) to discuss what's driving the rapid growth of TiDB in India today. Kabilesh also shares examples of TiDB users in the country. Why Flipkart chose TiDB: https://www.pingcap.com/blog/why-flipkart-chose-tidb-to-replace-its-large-mysql-fleet/ TiDB Labs: https://labs.tidb.io/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 ————————— 🔹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

26 min
MAY 27

Celebrating Ten Years of TiDB with a Hackathon

In this episode, we talk to two of the winners of the internal hackathon to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of TiDB. Terry Purcell (Chief Optimizer Architect) tells us about his team's project improve the Query Optimizer Cost Model in TiDB, and Kyle Biniasz (Head of Demand Gen at PingCAP) discusses his team's SDR Automation Platform. 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 ————————— 🔹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

37 min
MAY 13

How TiDB addresses today's challenges in FinTech

In this episode, Loc Trinh (Head of Solutions Architecture at @PingCAP ) talks about where the #fintech industry is today and how #tidb is helping address these challenges for FinTech customers. TiDB for FinTech: https://www.pingcap.com/solutions/fintech/ Why Plaid migrated to TiDB: https://www.pingcap.com/video/why-plaid-migrated-from-managed-mysql-to-tidb/ 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 ————————— 🔹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

26 min
APR 22

Optimizing Online DDL for TiDB

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 ————————— 🔹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

24 min
APR 8

Migrating 3 Billion rows to TiDB

————————— 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

34 min
MAR 26

Highlights of the TiDB 8.5 Release

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

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A podcast series where we discuss community, database, open source, and other topics. Email us at podcast@pingcap.com for your feedback or suggestions.

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Brian Foster, Daniel van Eeden, and Ray Paik
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2023 - 2025
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51
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Data in the Hallway

Data in the Hallway

Episodes

The backbone of RAG is structured data

Talking Hyper (Hybrid Physical Design Advisor)

TiDB's success in India

Celebrating Ten Years of TiDB with a Hackathon

How TiDB addresses today's challenges in FinTech

Optimizing Online DDL for TiDB

Migrating 3 Billion rows to TiDB

Highlights of the TiDB 8.5 Release

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