Right, TiDB developer here, TiDB is more suitable for the scenarios that the data cannot fit in one machine. I would say sharding may bring extra maintenance co

Right, TiDB developer here, TiDB is more suitable for the scenarios that the data cannot fit in one machine. I would say sharding may bring extra maintenance cost and code refactoring, and sometimes the storage change is almost transparent to the application layer (well, that depends what’s the workload), but if the application can live with that, TiDB would be a good alternative for large MySQL sharding cluster