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TiDB is an open source NewSQL database that speaks the MySQL protocol. You can scale it horizontally by adding nodes.

It is a relational DB (not time series). To describe a couple of differentiators from its peers:

- It aims to optimize both OLTP and OLAP workloads (aka HTAP)

- It uses a component-based architecture (the TiDB server is stateless and speaks the MySQL protocol. TiKV is the distributed storage layer. Thus, you can scale either independently. You can also connect to tikv directly from Spark).