Allen Xie

As more organizations adopt Diskless Kafka—a cloud-based messaging queue that builds entirely on object storage like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—they gain significant cost and operational advantages. But for latency-sensitive workloads, this architecture faces a key question: how to keep millisecond-level write latency while preserving the cost benefits of S3? This is the core trade-off between Diskless Kafka and object storage-backed services.

PingCAP is a global company focused on developing distributed, high-performance, and auto scaling relational databases. Its flagship product, TiDB, is a popular open source databases, and TiDB Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) based on TiDB, delivers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability for high-performance applications. Many PingCAP customers run highly latency-sensitive workloads such as financial or payment systems using TiDB Cloud.