Features
Distributed SQL with MySQL compatibility
Horizontal scaling for reads and writes
Hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP)
Native vector search and RAG pipelines
ACID transactions across nodes
Real-time change data capture via TiCDC
TiDB Operator for Kubernetes deployment
Multi-region replication and high availability
Point-in-time recovery and backup
Columnar storage for analytics
Autoscaling compute and storage (TiDB Cloud)
SSO and RBAC (TiDB Cloud)
Encryption at rest and in transit
Database branching via TINE for schema drift
Support for JDBC, ODBC, and popular ORMs
Web crawling and scraping API with Rust engine
AI Studio for natural language crawling (add-on $6/mo)
Browser AI commands via WebSocket: Act, Extract, Observe
Silk custom AI model for extraction and captcha solving
Browser Cloud with stealth anti-detection
Structured output: markdown, HTML, JSON, CSV, XML, plain text
Screenshot capture of pages
Link extraction from pages
Search endpoint for query-based data retrieval
Unblocker with rotating proxies and automatic retries
1,000+ ready-made scraper examples (32 categories)
Data connectors: S3, GCS, Google Sheets, Azure Blob, Supabase
Respects robots.txt (configurable)
Failed requests not billed
Open-source core available on GitHub
