Founded in 2015, PingCAP is the creator of TiDB, an advanced, open-source, distributed SQL database designed for elastic scale, strong consistency, and high availability. The company's mission is to build a database for the future that empowers businesses to manage and process massive amounts of data in real-time. PingCAP provides both self-hosted solutions and a fully-managed cloud service, TiDB Cloud, aiming to serve as a unified data platform for both online transactional processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads.