Case Study: Kunlun achieves scalable, cloud-native gaming analytics with PingCAP TiDB

Kunlun reduces hardware costs by 50% with PingCAP

Kunlun, a leading internet company focused on gaming, struggled with its data analytics system as its user base grew to over 100 million monthly users. Its previous MySQL solution could not handle the scale, with single tables storing over 50 million rows leading to slow performance. Attempts to optimize SQL and migrate to MySQL Cluster resulted in high costs, restricted features, and management complexity. The company sought a new database solution from vendor PingCAP that could scale horizontally.

PingDB implemented its TiDB database, a MySQL-compatible NewSQL solution. This provided Kunlun with elastic scalability, high availability, and a powerful ecosystem for integration with other data services. By deploying TiDB on the cloud, Kunlun successfully migrated dozens of terabytes of data and reduced its hardware costs by 50%, enabling it to build a comprehensive and scalable data platform for the future.

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