> I wonder how many people use things like CockroachDB, Yugabyte, or TiDB? TiDB is a pretty interesting project, but there are a few limitations that should be

> I wonder how many people use things like CockroachDB, Yugabyte, or TiDB? TiDB is a pretty interesting project, but there are a few limitations that should be taken into account when trying to use it: https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/mysql-compatibility https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/mysql-compatibility A lot of these are tradeoffs that will affect how a database can be architected, such as having no access to foreign keys and thus needing to think about any sort of consistency and not leaving orphaned data at the application level.