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A Ninja Van case study that explains why they migrated from MySQL/Galera to a MySQL-compatible distributed SQL database on Kubernetes, how they run it in production, and lessons learned during migration.

Ninja Van, a high-volume Southeast Asian logistics company, faced scaling and operational pain points with many MySQL instances on VMs, Galera replication, ProxySQL, and sharding complexity. They required a horizontally scalable, highly available, MySQL-compatible solution with strong CDC and Kubernetes support to meet growing OLTP and OLAP demands.

After evaluating alternatives including Vitess and CockroachDB, they selected TiDB for its high MySQL compatibility, richer open-source tooling (TiDB Data Migration, TiDB Lightning, TiCDC), and an operator that automates lifecycle tasks on Kubernetes. Benchmarks showed strong OLTP performance and dramatic OLAP speedups on some queries, and TiDB’s architecture allowed smoother scaling and management on K8s using TiDB Operator, TiKV, and TiFlash.

The case study also documents operational guidance and caveats: careful handling of local SSDs on cloud nodes, differences in ENUMs, collations and column-type changes, OOM protection settings, and CDC tradeoffs (including using a MySQL relay). Ninja Van outlines a two-way sync migration strategy to minimize downtime while moving services to the new distributed database.

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