TiDB Use Case Lab: Scale Out MySQL With Less Ops Toil

MySQL applications hit scaling ceilings: hot shards, schema-change windows, and operational sprawl from too many replicas. In this hands-on lab, we’ll show you how to modernize MySQL workloads onto TiDB to unlock horizontal scale, online schema evolution, and operational simplicity without major code rewrites.

You’ll see how TiDB’s MySQL-compatible, distributed SQL architecture separates compute and storage, scales linearly, and keeps applications online during migrations and upgrades. We’ll walk through how to migrate from MySQL to TiDB using TiDB Data Migration tooling, including setting up the migration task and verifying the migration result.