PingCAP

PingCAP (operating at pingcap.com) is an AI-native distributed SQL database platform engineered for agentic workloads with elastic autoscaling. Founded in 2015 by Max Liu, Dongxu Huang, and Qiu Cui, and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, PingCAP redefines data management by offering a MySQL-compatible yet distributed solution. Under the hood, TiDB—its flagship product—leverages a two-phase commit protocol to ensure ACID compliance across multi-node transactions, combining vectors, transactions, and analytics into a single engine. This architecture empowers enterprises to scale seamlessly while maintaining strong consistency, eliminating the trade-offs between performance and reliability. Backed by over $342 million in funding from leading investors like Sequoia Capital and GGV, PingCAP serves a global customer base, enabling AI-driven applications to handle complex, high-growth workloads with unmatched efficiency.