| Hackathon 2020

About

Welcome to TiDB Hackathon 2020, the most innovative technical challenge and one of the most popular events in the TiDB community! At TiDB Hackathon 2020, developers across the world will engage, collaborate, and innovate together to work on solutions to improve the productivity and efficiency of TiDB and its ecosystem projects, including TiKV and Chaos Mesh®️.

The theme of Hackathon this year is [∞], by which we expect participants to innovate, to challenge, and to unlock the infinite power of TiDB.

Join us to create unlimited possibilities for TiDB!

Highlights

Global Involvement

Developers all around the world are invited to participate in TiDB Hackathon this year to improve TiDB’s productivity and efficiency and of course enjoy the fun of coding and hacking!

Incubation Support

Excellent projects will be voted by TOC (Technical Oversight Committee) to join the TiDB Incubator program, where the projects will be properly guided and supported to become actual community projects.

Prize Pool

In addition to the bountiful prizes for top winning teams, we offer the best popularity prize voted by the demo audience.

WINNERS

Team ' or 0=0 or ' developed a User Defined Function (UDF) engine for TiDB to help users write complex execution logics of custom functions and directly perform computing on the database.

FIRST PLACE

' or 0=0 or '

Team B.A.D developed a Visual Studio Code extension to make developing and tuning TiDB a breeze.

SECOND PLACE & CTO SPECIAL

B.A.D

Team TiGraph implemented a graph schema in TiDB to make TiDB a hybrid multi-mode database of TP, AP, and Graph.

SECOND PLACE

TiGraph

Team zh.md developed an automated stylelint for Chinese technical documents to speed up review, improve overall doc quality, and encourage engineers to write more.

THIRD PLACE

zh.md

Team Mods developed GPU accelerated TiDB for analytical queries to improve the performance of CPU-intensive analytical workloads, such as joins, aggregations, etc.

THIRD PLACE & BEST MARKET POTENTIAL (YUNQI PARTNERS)

Mods

Team Ti-Improve developed an AWS native testing framework to reduce the cost of testing and improve testing diversity.

BEST MARKET POTENTIAL (ChinaGrowthCapital)

Ti-Improve

Team 森海飞霞 applied dynamic copysets to TiKV to lower the frequency of data loss in Cloud TiKV when the three copies of the same dataset are damaged at the same time.

CNCF SPECIAL

森海飞霞

Team hundundm integrated BI analytics tools into TiDB Dashboard to help DBAs directly analyze cluster status and analysts perform data visualization analysis based on TiDB reports.

BEST MARKET POTENTIAL (GGV CAPITAL)

hundundm

Team TiFlink integrated Flink stream batch capabilities with TiKV to better connect Flink and TiDB/TiKV and help TiDB support materialized view function.

BEST POPULARITY

TiFlink

Timeline

2020.12.15-2021.1.10

Sign-up
2021.1.11

Pre-hacking communication
2021.1.16-2021.1.17

Happy hacking
2021.1.17

Demo & evaluation

Participate

Sign-up

2020.12.15-2021.1.10

Submit the application form before 18:00, Jan 10 (China Standard Time). Attach your program RFC document with the program description in the application form. Each RFC submitted before Jan 10 will be reviewed and commented by the TiDB Hackathon Technical Committee.

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Pre-hacking communication

2021.1.11

The organizing committee communicates the feedback with each team. It is recommended that each team make adjustments or improvements based on the feedback before the hacking starts.

RFC template

Happy hacking

2021.1.16-2021.1.17

Let’s have fun with hacking!

Demo & evaluation

2021.1.17 13:00

Demo Time

Note: the demo time is in China Standard Time (GMT+8). If you could not present the demo due to the time difference, please contact us in the Slack channel for other arrangements.