The role of databases in AI powered systems & Introduction to TiDB & TiDB Gen AI Capabilities

Introduction to TiDB - a distributed SQL database. We will go through its architecture and how it distributes data and provides high availability. Besides its row-based storage for efficient transaction handling, it also provides optional column storage for speeding up analytics queries.

Join us as we explore TiDB and TiDB Cloud, a fully-managed DBaaS offering of TiDB. In this tech talk session, we will discuss:\n- Horizontally scalable, distributed architecture\n- Challenges of legacy scaling architectures\n- Enables fully ACID OLTP plus access to deep aggregation on real-time data\n- Simplifies the data ecosystem by eliminating the need for multiple niche platforms and the connecting data pipelines

AI applications demand real-time, high-fidelity data at massive scale. Traditional databases can’t keep up. Join us to learn how TiDB Cloud on Azure, a distributed SQL database built for both transactions and analytics, integrates seamlessly with Fabric to unlock new possibilities for AI and agentic workloads. Whether you’re a developer, data architect, or IT leader, you’ll leave with a clear view of how to build intelligent, data-driven applications on Azure that scale with your ambitions.