The PD (Placement Driver) server is the metadata managing component of the TiDB cluster.
The PD (Placement Driver) server is the metadata managing component of the TiDB cluster.
It stores metadata of real-time data distribution of every single TiKV node and the topology structure of the entire TiDB cluster, provides the TiDB Dashboard management UI, and allocates transaction IDs to distributed transactions.
Related tags
- tidb - an open-source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads
- tikv - a distributed key-value database based on the design of Google Spanner and HBase. It is TiDB's storage engine.