First "Global Open Source Contribution Ranking" Released, Three PingCAP Co-Founders Make the List | Cloud News · Open Source

>>> Recently, BenchCouncil (International Open Benchmark Council) invited multiple independent scientists to select 145 representative achievements from open-source contributions dating back to the 1960s — or from work that significantly influenced open-source development.

Merit alone determined the rankings. A total of 264 individuals made the list, including 24 of Chinese descent. All three PingCAP co-founders — Qi Liu, Dongxu Huang, and Qiu Cui — made the list, following Yunqi Capital's lead investment in the company's Series A round.

▲ From left: Dongxu Huang, Qi Liu, and Qiu Cui

PingCAP's self-developed TiDB is one of the most active open-source database projects globally. As a converged distributed database product, TiDB now serves over 3,000 enterprise users worldwide across industries including finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, and internet.

Yunqi Capital led PingCAP's Series A funding round in 2016 and has continued to invest in subsequent rounds. Over the years, we have maintained a sustained focus on — and active participation in — building the open-source ecosystem. Our early-stage investments in open-source companies include Zilliz, Jina AI, RisingWave, and TabbyML. We have also co-published the China Open Source Annual Report: Commercialization Edition with the leading industry alliance "KaiYuanShe" (Open Source Society) for two consecutive years. The 2023 China Open Source Annual Report will be released soon — stay tuned.

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