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Drivers and ORMs that support TiDB

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
Hibernate	ORM	6.1.0.Final	–	Connect to TiDB with Hibernate
MyBatis	ORM	v3.5.10	–	Connect to TiDB with MyBatis
Spring Data JPA	ORM	2.7.2	–	Connect to TiDB with Spring Boot
jOOQ	ORM	v3.16.7 (Open Source)	–	–
JDBC	Driver	5.1.46; 8.0.29	5.1.46: N/A; 8.0.29: pingcap/mysql-connector-j	Connect to TiDB with JDBC

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
gorm	ORM	v1.23.5	–	Connect to TiDB with GORM
beego	ORM	v2.0.3	–	–
upper/db	ORM	v4.5.2	–	–
xorm	ORM	v1.3.1	–	–
go-sql-driver/mysql	Driver	v1.6.0	–	Connect to TiDB with Go-MySQL-Driver

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
laravel	ORM	–	laravel-tidb	–
MySQL Connector/PHP	Driver	–	–	–

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
Django	ORM	v4.2	django-tidb	Connect to TiDB with Django
peewee	ORM	–	–	Connect to TiDB with peewee
PonyORM	ORM	–	–	–
SQLAlchemy	ORM	v1.4.37	–	Connect to TiDB with SQLAlchemy
MySQL Connector/Python	Driver	–	–	Connect to TiDB with MySQL Connector/Python
mysqlclient	Driver	–	–	Connect to TiDB with mysqlclient
PyMySQL	Driver	–	–	Connect to TiDB with PyMySQL

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
Sequelize	ORM	v6.20.1	–	Connect to TiDB with Sequelize
Knex.js	ORM	–	–	–
Prisma	ORM	4.16.2	–	Connect to TiDB with Prisma
TypeORM	ORM	v0.3.17	–	Connect to TiDB with TypeORM
mysql.js	Driver	–	–	Connect to TiDB with mysql.js
node-mysql2	Driver	–	–	Connect to TiDB with node-mysql2

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
ActiveRecord	ORM	v7.0	–	Connect to TiDB with Rails Framework and ActiveRecord ORM
mysql2	Driver	–	–	Connect to TiDB with mysql2

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
MySQL Connector/C	Driver	6.1.11	–	–

Name	ORM / Driver	Latest tested version	TiDB adapter	Tutorial
MySQL Connector/NET	Driver	–	–	–
MySQL Connector/ODBC	Driver	–	–	–

Demos and Tutorials

Get started now with our example apps and projects!

Simple S&P500 Dashboard

Using Vercel + NextJS + TiDB Cloud Starter to build a simple S&P500 dashboard.

Launch Demo

VercelNextJSTailwind

Insights into Automotive Sales

Insight car sales trends using TiDB serverless driver and edge functions.

Launch Demo

Edge functionTiDB Cloud StarterPrisma

OSSInsight

A powerful insight tool that analyzes billions of GitHub events data to help you get insight into any single GitHub repository/developers, compare any two repositories using the same metrics, and provide comprehensive, valuable, and trending open source insights.

Launch Demo

DemoData AnalysisHTAP

E-commerce

An E-commerce demo application powered by TiDB Cloud and Snowflake.In this demo, we will use TiDB Cloud and Snowflake to build an online e-commerce system, which will use TiDB's powerful realtime HTAP capability and Snowflake's offline analysis capability for a large amount of data in the system.

Launch Demo

DemoHTAPE-commerce

Bookshop

Bookshop is a virtual online bookstore application through which you can find books of various categories and rate the books.You can perform CRUD operations such as viewing book details, adding and deleting ratings, editing book inventory, etc.

Launch Demo

DemoNode/TS ORMBookstore

Datadog Integration

You can configure TiDB Cloud to send metric data about your TiDB clusters to Datadog. After that, you can view these metrics in your Datadog dashboards directly.

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TutorialDatadogTiDB Cloud

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Podcasts: Data in the Hallway

We have a podcast series called Data in the Hallway, where we discuss community, database, open source, and other topics. You can find the podcast series on YouTube or on your favorite podcast platforms (e.g., Apple podcasts, Spotify, etc.)!

Episode 0 – Series Kickoff

Episode 1 – The ongoing popularity of MySQL

Episode 2 – How Hackathons can help developers

Developer Courses

Learn how to use TiDB by taking our guided Training.

Introduction to TiDB

This course introduces the reasons behind customers' adoption of TiDB, as well as the core components and their concepts required to build up a distributed TiDB cluster and TiDB Cloud.

Audience: Architects, Developers and Database administrators
Level: Introductory
Duration: 1.5 hours
Prerequisites: None

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TiDB Workshop for MySQL Users

This workshop is a shortcut path to help an experienced MySQL user understand the unique features of TiDB and TiDB Cloud, with a series of hands-on exercises.

Audience: Architects, Developers and Database administrators
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 5 hours
Prerequisites: Experienced with SQL queries and basic knowledge with DML and DDL on MySQL compatible RDBMS.

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Working with TiDB from Java

This course guides you through a series of concepts and hands-on best practices to implement read and write operations via Java applications. It focuses on the JDBC driver perspective to get the audience ready to face any Java based ORM frameworks.

Audience: SQL and Java developers
Level: Introductory
Duration: 3 hours
Prerequisites: Experience with Java programming and SQL

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Tech Blog Posts

Blog posts of particular interest to developers

Product

Building an AI-Powered Crypto ETF Insights App with GPTs and TiDB Cloud Data Service

Product

Mastering TiDB Cloud Data Service–Your Ultimate Guide to Building a Data-Driven Backend

Thought Leadership

Three Modern App Development Trends to Watch in 2024 and Beyond

Product

Building an AI-Powered Crypto ETF Insights App with GPTs and TiDB Cloud Data Service

Product

Mastering TiDB Cloud Data Service–Your Ultimate Guide to Building a Data-Driven Backend

Thought Leadership

Three Modern App Development Trends to Watch in 2024 and Beyond

Developer Event

Join a meetup online or near you to code, learn and connect.

Community

Evaluating Distributed Databases for Large-Scale Social Network Applications: TAO, TAO Bench, and TiDB

Community

How Today’s Leading FinTech Company Builds Their Payment System

Community

When Cloud-native Streaming Platform Meets Cloud-native Distributed Database

Community

Evaluating Distributed Databases for Large-Scale Social Network Applications: TAO, TAO Bench, and TiDB

Community

How Today’s Leading FinTech Company Builds Their Payment System

Community