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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

TiDB, One Layer at a Time: How Distributed SQL Became an Agentic AI Backbone

Daniël van Eeden , Mattias Jonsson

TiDB originally solved painful database sharding. Now, its decoupled architecture eliminates brittle ETL pipelines to provide a synchronized hybrid search backbone for agentic AI.

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