Manus Runs 1.5M Databases on TiDB as DB Users Shift From Humans to Agents
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-21
Manus operates roughly 1.5 million databases, all running on PingCAP's TiDB, most of them used just once and then discarded. The trend behind this: the primary users of databases are shifting from humans to agents.
The author explores four questions: who creates these databases, why there are so many, where TiDB's cost advantage lies, and what the trade-offs are. The core takeaway is that whoever can drive the cost of a single database down to near zero will capture this wave of demand in the agent era. Sources include PingCAP press releases and blogs, Huang Dongxu's blog, and Pinterest/Mercari engineering blogs.
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