The upcoming release adds asynchronous I/O and UUID v7 for faster transactions, yet lacks features to support HTAP and ...

Today, more than 300 companies are relying on TiDB in production to meet their OLTP/OLAP, database scalability, real-time analytics, and unified storage needs.

There’s no denying that analytic (i.e. OLAP) and transactional (i.e. OLTP) workloads put different demands on the underlying database. They have different I/O patterns, different latency expectations, ...

For example, ETL and reverse ETL, data quality and observability, OLTP and OLAP (aka HTAP), data catalogs fold under data governance platforms, and MLOps fold under AI platforms.

Despite the widespread use of PostgreSQL by app developers to manage transactional data, its use in analytic apps has been quite limited.

Excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed by Irina Gorbach, Alexander Berger, Edward Melomed Chapter 1: Introduction to OLAP and Its Role in Business Intelligence ...