PingCAP is a global company focused on developing distributed, high-performance, and auto scaling relational databases. Its flagship product, TiDB, is a popular open source databases, and TiDB Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) based on TiDB, delivers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability for high-performance applications.
Many PingCAP customers run highly latency-sensitive workloads such as financial or payment systems using TiDB Cloud. To provide high performance, TiDB Cloud is deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) as the underlying storage. Amazon EBS provides high performance block storage, and its top performing EBS volume type, io2 Block Express, is designed to deliver an average latency under 500 microseconds for 16 KiB I/O operations. When compared to Amazon EBS General Purpose gp3 volumes, io2 Block Express also offers significantly lower outlier…
