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PingCAP Partners with Pasona Data & Design to Push TiDB into Japan's MySQL Enterprise MarketA · FULL TRANSLATION

Source: PR TIMES· Published: 2026/06/07 05:40 JST· Section: MARKETS & FX
PingCAP Partners with Pasona Data & Design to Push TiDB into Japan's MySQL Enterprise Market
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# PingCAP# TiDB# MySQL# database migration# systems integration
Key Points
  • Distributed database firm PingCAP forms a partnership with Pasona Data & Design
  • Pasona D&D is a MySQL-focused solutions company within the Pasona group
  • The alliance will drive TiDB adoption and MySQL migration support in Japan
  • PingCAP's Japan unit is based in Chiyoda, Tokyo
Analysis

PingCAP teaming with Pasona Data & Design follows the standard playbook for foreign database vendors in Japan: enterprise IT runs on the systems-integrator ecosystem, and without a local partner providing deployment, operations, and reassurance, even great products never reach the procurement list. Pasona D&D's MySQL client base is precisely TiDB's migration target list.

The larger backdrop is generational change in the MySQL ecosystem: with Oracle steering MySQL investment toward cloud HeatWave, enterprises are seeking compatible alternatives, and TiDB and Aurora are catching that migration wave. Taiwan likewise holds a large MySQL installed base, making this substitution battle relevant to DBAs there.

Database choices turn over once a decade — will this round's winners be the cloud giants or the open-source challengers?

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PingCAP K.K. (headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo; President: Eric Han) announced a partnership with Pasona Data & Design Inc. (Minato, Tokyo), a company specializing in database, cloud, and AI technology businesses.

Pasona Data & Design, a Pasona group company built around MySQL expertise, brings extensive enterprise database deployment and operations experience. Through the partnership, the two firms will jointly promote adoption of PingCAP's distributed database TiDB in the Japanese enterprise market, including migration support from existing MySQL environments, technical consulting, and managed operations.

TiDB is known for high MySQL compatibility and horizontal scalability, with growing adoption in Japanese finance, gaming, and retail. The alliance strengthens PingCAP's local support structure via a domestic systems integrator.

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