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Purpose-Built for Agentic Scale

The Database Behind Every AI Agent

TiDB provides the transactional speed, unified data access, and elastic scale AI agents need to reason, act, and iterate in real time.

Elastic Scale

Expand instantly to match demand, then scale to zero when idle

  • Autoscaling adapts to agent workloads automatically, from zero to peak
  • Instant branching creates isolated environments in milliseconds
  • Compute and storage scale independently, no capacity planning required

CLUSTER AUTOSCALING● liveRequest Units / second10K5K1K0Zero costcosts follow workloadcosts decreaseRU1002040STORAGE500 GBindependentCOST / hr$0.24$0.00$0.48$1.92EVENTS↑ scale-out RU 10→20↑ scale-out RU 20→40↓ scale-in RU 40→20↓ scale-to-zero (idle)agent workloads increasingpeak demand detecteddemand decreasingno active workloads

Unified Engine

Query vectors, transactions, and analytics in a single call

  • Join vector similarity results directly against transactional data
  • One engine replaces your vector store, warehouse, and transaction layer
  • No ETL, no middleware, fewer systems to build and maintain

-- One query. Vectors + transactions.
-- No separate vector DB needed.

SELECT
  a.agent_id, a.goal, a.status,
  m_top.relevance
FROM agent_tasks a
JOIN (
  SELECT id,
    vec_cosine_distance(
      embedding, '[0.12, 0.85, ...]'
    ) AS relevance
  FROM memory_store
  ORDER BY vec_cosine_distance(
    embedding, '[0.12, 0.85, ...]')
  LIMIT 100
) m_top ON a.context_id = m_top.id
WHERE a.status = 'active'
ORDER BY m_top.relevance
LIMIT 10;

Consistent State

Give every agent action a reliable, up-to-date view of the data

  • Agent state stays ACID-consistent from one workflow step to the next
  • Concurrent agents always read identical state, no matter which node they hit
  • Multi-step workflows survive failover without losing progress or replaying actions

-- Agent step 3: update, then read back.
-- The read ALWAYS reflects the write.

BEGIN;

UPDATE agent_state SET
  step = 3,
  plan = JSON_SET(plan,
    '$.next_action', 'execute')
WHERE agent_id = 'a-7f3e'
  AND step = 2;  -- compare-and-swap

-- Immediate read: no stale state.
SELECT step, plan->>>'$.next_action'
  FROM agent_state
  WHERE agent_id = 'a-7f3e';
-- Returns: step=3, next_action='execute'
-- Even across distributed nodes.

COMMIT;

Agent Autonomy

Run concurrent AI agents without interference or compromise

  • Each agent gets dedicated throughput that other workloads can’t touch
  • Tenant-scoped data separation keeps every agent’s state private
  • No shared resources, cross-tenant contention, or coordination overhead

WORKLOAD ISOLATION MONITOR● liveagent_criticalquota: 10,000 RU/slimitthroughput:8,200 RU/s● stableOKISOLATION BOUNDARYagent_batchquota: 2,000 RU/slimitthroughput:2,000 RU/s (capped)THROTTLEISOLATION BOUNDARYagent_backgroundquota: 500 RU/s● idlebatch spikes to 3× quota → critical unchanged

Developer Ready

Build with the tools and syntax your agents and developers already know

  • Standard SQL means agents and developers start productive on day one
  • MCP, pytidb, LangChain, and LlamaIndex integrations out of the box
  • Online DDLs and zero-downtime schema changes so shipping never stops

// Connect any AI agent to TiDB
// via the MCP server.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "TiDB Cloud": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y", "mcp-remote",
        "https://tidb.link/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

// Now your agent can:
// "Create a branch from prod"
// "Run SELECT * FROM agents"
// "Show me slow queries"

Expand instantly to match demand, then scale to zero when idle

  • Autoscaling adapts to agent workloads automatically, from zero to peak
  • Instant branching creates isolated environments in milliseconds
  • Compute and storage scale independently, no capacity planning required

CLUSTER AUTOSCALING● liveRequest Units / second10K5K1K0Zero costcosts follow workloadcosts decreaseRU1002040STORAGE500 GBindependentCOST / hr$0.24$0.00$0.48$1.92EVENTS↑ scale-out RU 10→20↑ scale-out RU 20→40↓ scale-in RU 40→20↓ scale-to-zero (idle)agent workloads increasingpeak demand detecteddemand decreasingno active workloads

Query vectors, transactions, and analytics in a single call

  • Join vector similarity results directly against transactional data
  • One engine replaces your vector store, warehouse, and transaction layer
  • No ETL, no middleware, fewer systems to build and maintain

-- One query. Vectors + transactions.
-- No separate vector DB needed.

SELECT
  a.agent_id, a.goal, a.status,
  m_top.relevance
FROM agent_tasks a
JOIN (
  SELECT id,
    vec_cosine_distance(
      embedding, '[0.12, 0.85, ...]'
    ) AS relevance
  FROM memory_store
  ORDER BY vec_cosine_distance(
    embedding, '[0.12, 0.85, ...]')
  LIMIT 100
) m_top ON a.context_id = m_top.id
WHERE a.status = 'active'
ORDER BY m_top.relevance
LIMIT 10;

Give every agent action a reliable, up-to-date view of the data

  • Agent state stays ACID-consistent from one workflow step to the next
  • Concurrent agents always read identical state, no matter which node they hit
  • Multi-step workflows survive failover without losing progress or replaying actions

-- Agent step 3: update, then read back.
-- The read ALWAYS reflects the write.

BEGIN;

UPDATE agent_state SET
  step = 3,
  plan = JSON_SET(plan,
    '$.next_action', 'execute')
WHERE agent_id = 'a-7f3e'
  AND step = 2;  -- compare-and-swap

-- Immediate read: no stale state.
SELECT step, plan->>>'$.next_action'
  FROM agent_state
  WHERE agent_id = 'a-7f3e';
-- Returns: step=3, next_action='execute'
-- Even across distributed nodes.

COMMIT;

Run concurrent AI agents without interference or compromise

  • Each agent gets dedicated throughput that other workloads can’t touch
  • Tenant-scoped data separation keeps every agent’s state private
  • No shared resources, cross-tenant contention, or coordination overhead

WORKLOAD ISOLATION MONITOR● liveagent_criticalquota: 10,000 RU/slimitthroughput:8,200 RU/s● stableOKISOLATION BOUNDARYagent_batchquota: 2,000 RU/slimitthroughput:2,000 RU/s (capped)THROTTLEISOLATION BOUNDARYagent_backgroundquota: 500 RU/s● idlebatch spikes to 3× quota → critical unchanged

Build with the tools and syntax your agents and developers already know

  • Standard SQL means agents and developers start productive on day one
  • MCP, pytidb, LangChain, and LlamaIndex integrations out of the box
  • Online DDLs and zero-downtime schema changes so shipping never stops

// Connect any AI agent to TiDB
// via the MCP server.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "TiDB Cloud": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y", "mcp-remote",
        "https://tidb.link/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

// Now your agent can:
// "Create a branch from prod"
// "Run SELECT * FROM agents"
// "Show me slow queries"

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