PingCAP
announced the availability of its new Developer Tier for TiDB Cloud. The
fully-managed database as a service now allows developers to easily launch a
small TiDB cluster for free for up to one year.
The TiDB Cloud Developer Tier introduces a 12-month trial
period, in which developers can build and test applications directly in the
platform. Through this offering, PingCAP is breaking down the adoption barrier
for TiDB, providing the crucial time developers need to experiment first-hand
how TiDB and TiDB Cloud can support their mission-critical applications and
workloads, while providing decision makers a time frame to properly evaluate
and determine where TiDB delivers the highest ROI for their needs.
PingCAP's new offering provides users with storage up to 10GB of OLTP and
10GB of OLAP data. This tier is not meant for production workloads and excludes
the 3-copy redundancy that makes high availability possible in regular TiDB
Cloud clusters. All Developer Tier clusters are fully functional and run
securely in containers and dedicated block storage to ensure the security,
safety, and separation of data. TiDB Cloud Developer Tier is now available on
Amazon Web Services and will be accessible through the Google Cloud Platform
the second half of 2022.
"Our commitment to our customers starts before they choose PingCAP
as their provider. Through this new developer tier, we are giving users the
appropriate time to properly test and evaluate the benefits of TiDB and TiDB
Cloud," said Shen Li, SVP, Head of Global Business at PingCAP. "This
new tier aims to ease the decision-making process and give customers the
confidence that they are choosing the best option for their projects. Moreover,
we are shattering the barrier for TiDB adoption and making it easier for our
customers to onboard TiDB in their mission-critical applications."
TiDB Cloud handles all the behind-the-scenes
database management such as infrastructure management, cluster deployment and
backup management, leaving developers to focus on creating the next best
application.