The TiDB 3.0 GA version is released!

[TiDB user group]

Here I present you TiDB 3.0 GA which delivers stability at scale and performance boost! Check out the announcement [HERE]. 

In this strongest TiDB version yet, TiDB delivers stability at a massive scale and performance boost. Some highlights in this release:

• Stability at a massive scale:
  • several hundreds of production users from all kinds of industries who have battle-tested TiDB with a multitude of real-world scenarios
  • real-world cluster with 300 TBs of data and 150+ physical nodes
• Significant performance improvements in Sysbench and TPC-C benchmarks.
• Evolving to HTAP by adding a columnar store, the TiFlash extension
• Inspired by WiscKey, Titan, a RocksDB plugin to reduce write amplification, is added for scenarios with value sizes greater than 1 KB, relieves write amplification in RocksDB, and decreases the disk I/O usage, see the Engineering blog for its design and implementation.

For a full list of new features and improvements, I strongly encourage you to check out the TiDB 3.0 GA release notes. 

You can also join us in our community Slack Channel: https://pingcap.com/tidbslack/