TiDB Data Connection

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Introduction 

TiDB is a converged distributed database product that supports both Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), known as Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP). It features horizontal capacity scaling, financial-grade high availability, real-time HTAP capabilities, distributed cloud-native architecture, and compatibility with MySQL 5.7 protocol and MySQL ecosystem, among other important characteristics.

FineDataLink supports the use of TiDB databases as the source and target data sources.

Scheduled Task supports the reading from and writing into the TiDB database.

Pipeline Task supports data writing into the TiDB database.

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Connection Information Collection 

Collect the following information before connecting FineDataLink to the database.

• IP address and port number of the database server

• Database name

1. Log in to FineDataLink as the admin, choose System Management > Data Connection > Data Connection Management, and click New Data Connection.

Note:

If you are not the admin, you can configure data connections only after the admin assigns you permission on Data Connection under Permission Management > System Management. For details, see Data Connection Management Permission. 

 2. Click the TiDB icon.

3. Fill in the connection information.

Note:

(Optional) You can modify advanced settings. For details, see Connection Pool Setting.

4.  Click Test Connection. If the connection is successful, click Save to save the configuration.

After configuring the data source, you can use it in Data Development. For details, see Overview of Data Development.

After configuring the data connection, you can use it in Data Pipeline to write data into the TiDB database.