Case Study: iQiyi achieves scalable, always-on video streaming with TiDB from PingCAP

How TiDB Helps iQiyi Deliver Streaming Videos

The Chinese online video platform iQiyi faced significant challenges managing its rapidly growing data volume, which placed enormous strain on its backend MySQL database. The company experienced performance bottlenecks and an inability to scale, creating an urgent need for a horizontally scalable, highly available, and MySQL-compatible database solution from a vendor like PingCAP.

PingCAP implemented its TiDB database, an open-source NewSQL HTAP solution, to replace the MySQL cluster. The deployment resulted in a simplified application architecture, the elimination of manual sharding, stable performance despite massive data growth, and high availability across multiple data centers. iQiyi successfully uses TiDB for critical systems like its Risk Monitoring Center and video transcoding, allowing it to properly manage its data and continue scaling its services.

iQiyi

Boshuai Zhu

Senior Infrastructure Engineer