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0 pointsmorgo7y ago0 comments

Hi! I work for PingCAP, the company behind TiDB and come from previously working on MySQL.

The gap of features missing is documented here: https://www.pingcap.com/docs/sql/mysql-compatibility/

I would rate compatibility as actually pretty good: all but one SQL mode is supported (which is a feat in itself), and most of the SQL functions are supported.

There are some exceptions though, some which are addressable (missing functions) and some that are not (often a property of being an optimistic system).

We try to be as transparent as possible on this, which might be part of the reason why you feel there is a lot missing?

If you have specific examples, I would be happy to clarify. We also have a course designed for MySQL DBAs, which is designed to make the adoption easier: https://www.pingcap.com/tidb-academy

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manigandham7y ago· 1 in thread

Good to see the progress, I was looking at the roadmap page: https://github.com/pingcap/docs/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

Views and CTEs are probably the biggest missing pieces now.

morgoOP7y ago

The technical design for views was recently completed, and I expect to see them added soon :-)

Window functions & CTEs are only very recent features in MySQL 8.0 (TiDB is 5.7 compatible). None the less, they are important for HTAP workloads, and I'm looking forward to seeing them too.

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