*: clarify feature availability on Starter and Essential clusters (#21509)

develop/dev-guide-gui-datagrip.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ TiDB is a MySQL-compatible database, and [JetBrains DataGrip](https://www.jetbra
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 You can use DataGrip in two ways:
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ To complete this tutorial, you need:
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-gui-dbeaver.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to connect to your TiDB cluster using DBeave
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ To complete this tutorial, you need:
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-gui-mysql-workbench.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to connect to your TiDB cluster using MySQL
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ To complete this tutorial, you need:
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you have selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-gui-navicat.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to connect to your TiDB cluster using Navica
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ To complete this tutorial, you need:
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you have selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-gui-vscode-sqltools.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to connect to your TiDB cluster using Visual
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> - This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> - This tutorial is compatible with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 > - This tutorial also works with Visual Studio Code Remote Development environments, such as [GitHub Codespaces](https://github.com/features/codespaces), [Visual Studio Code Dev Containers](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers), and [Visual Studio Code WSL](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl).
 
 ## Prerequisites
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ To complete this tutorial, you need:
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you have selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-aws-lambda.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and mysql2 in AWS Lambda Functio
 
 > **Note**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}} and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've sele
 
 <SimpleTab>
 
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-golang-gorm.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and GORM to accomplish the follo
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ cd tidb-golang-gorm-quickstart
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-golang-sql-driver.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and Go-MySQL-Driver to accomplis
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ cd tidb-golang-sql-driver-quickstart
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ func openDB(driverName string, runnable func(db *sql.DB)) {
 }
 ```
 
-When using this function, you need to replace `${tidb_host}`, `${tidb_port}`, `${tidb_user}`, `${tidb_password}`, and `${tidb_db_name}` with the actual values of your TiDB cluster. {{{ .starter }}} requires a secure connection. Therefore, you need to set the value of `${use_ssl}` to `true`.
+When using this function, you need to replace `${tidb_host}`, `${tidb_port}`, `${tidb_user}`, `${tidb_password}`, and `${tidb_db_name}` with the actual values of your TiDB cluster. {{{ .starter }}} and {{{ .essential }}} require a secure connection. Therefore, you need to set the value of `${use_ssl}` to `true`.
 
 ### Insert data
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-java-hibernate.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and Hibernate to accomplish the
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ cd tidb-java-hibernate-quickstart
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-java-jdbc.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and JDBC to accomplish the follo
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> - This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> - This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 > - Starting from TiDB v7.4, if `connectionCollation` is not configured, and `characterEncoding` is either not configured or set to `UTF-8` in the JDBC URL, the collation used in a JDBC connection depends on the JDBC driver version. For more information, see [Collation used in JDBC connections](/faq/sql-faq.md#collation-used-in-jdbc-connections).
 
 </CustomContent>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and JDBC to accomplish the follo
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> - This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> - This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 > - Starting from TiDB v7.4, if `connectionCollation` is not configured, and `characterEncoding` is either not configured or set to `UTF-8` in the JDBC URL, the collation used in a JDBC connection depends on the JDBC driver version. For more information, see [Collation used in JDBC connections](https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/sql-faq#collation-used-in-jdbc-connections).
 
 </CustomContent>
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ To complete this tutorial, you need:
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> For security considerations, it is recommended that you use `VERIFY_IDENTITY` to establish TLS connections to TiDB clusters when connecting over the internet. Both {{{ .starter }}} and TiDB Cloud Dedicated use Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificates, which require MySQL Connector/J version to be greater than or equal to [8.0.22](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-8-0-22.html).
+> For security considerations, it is recommended that you use `VERIFY_IDENTITY` to establish TLS connections to TiDB clusters when connecting over the internet. {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, and TiDB Cloud Dedicated use Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificates, which require MySQL Connector/J version to be greater than or equal to [8.0.22](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-8-0-22.html).
 
 **If you don't have a TiDB cluster, you can create one as follows:**
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ cd tidb-java-jdbc-quickstart
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-java-mybatis.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and MyBatis to accomplish the fo
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ cd tidb-java-mybatis-quickstart
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-java-spring-boot.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB along with [Spring Data JPA](htt
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ cd tidb-java-springboot-jpa-quickstart
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-nextjs.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and mysql2 in Next.js to accompl
 
 > **Note**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}} and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've sele
 
 <SimpleTab>
 
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters** page](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters), and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-nodejs-mysql2.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and node-mysql2 to accomplish th
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ npm install mysql2 dotenv --save
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ void main();
 
 > **Note**
 >
-> For {{{ .starter }}}, you **MUST** enable TLS connection via `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` when using public endpoint. However, you **don't** have to specify an SSL CA certificate via `TIDB_CA_PATH`, because Node.js uses the built-in [Mozilla CA certificate](https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates) by default, which is trusted by {{{ .starter }}}.
+> For {{{ .starter }}} and {{{ .essential }}}, you **MUST** enable TLS connection via `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` when using public endpoint. However, you **don't** have to specify an SSL CA certificate via `TIDB_CA_PATH`, because Node.js uses the built-in [Mozilla CA certificate](https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates) by default, which is trusted by {{{ .starter }}}.
 
 ### Insert data
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-nodejs-mysqljs.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and mysql.js driver to accomplis
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ npm install mysql dotenv --save
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ conn.end();
 
 > **Note**
 >
-> For {{{ .starter }}}, you **MUST** enable TLS connection via `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` when using public endpoint. However, you **don't** have to specify an SSL CA certificate via `TIDB_CA_PATH`, because Node.js uses the built-in [Mozilla CA certificate](https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates) by default, which is trusted by {{{ .starter }}}.
+> For {{{ .starter }}} and {{{ .essential }}}, you **MUST** enable TLS connection via `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` when using public endpoint. However, you **don't** have to specify an SSL CA certificate via `TIDB_CA_PATH`, because Node.js uses the built-in [Mozilla CA certificate](https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates) by default, which is trusted by {{{ .starter }}}.
 
 ### Insert data
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-nodejs-prisma.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and Prisma to accomplish the fol
 
 > **Note:**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ npm install prisma typescript ts-node @types/node --save-dev
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-nodejs-sequelize.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and Sequelize to accomplish the
 
 > **Note**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've sele
 
 <SimpleTab>
 
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 

develop/dev-guide-sample-application-nodejs-typeorm.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ In this tutorial, you can learn how to use TiDB and TypeORM to accomplish the fo
 
 > **Note**
 >
-> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
+> This tutorial works with {{{ .starter }}}, {{{ .essential }}}, TiDB Cloud Dedicated, and TiDB Self-Managed.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ npm install @types/node ts-node typescript --save-dev
 Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've selected.
 
 <SimpleTab>
-<div label="{{{ .starter }}}">
+<div label="{{{ .starter }}} or Essential">
 
 1. Navigate to the [**Clusters**](https://tidbcloud.com/project/clusters) page, and then click the name of your target cluster to go to its overview page.
 
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Connect to your TiDB cluster depending on the TiDB deployment option you've sele
 
     > **Note**
     >
-    > For {{{ .starter }}}, you **MUST** enable TLS connection via `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` when using public endpoint.
+    > For {{{ .starter }}} and {{{ .essential }}}, you **MUST** enable TLS connection via `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` when using public endpoint.
 
 7. Save the `.env` file.
 
@@ -276,9 +276,9 @@ export const AppDataSource = new DataSource({
 
 > **Note**
 >
-> For {{{ .starter }}}, you MUST enable TLS connection when using public endpoint. In this sample code, please set up the environment variable `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` in the `.env` file to `true`.
+> For {{{ .starter }}} and {{{ .essential }}}, you MUST enable TLS connection when using public endpoint. In this sample code, please set up the environment variable `TIDB_ENABLE_SSL` in the `.env` file to `true`.
 >
-> However, you **don't** have to specify an SSL CA certificate via `TIDB_CA_PATH`, because Node.js uses the built-in [Mozilla CA certificate](https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates) by default, which is trusted by {{{ .starter }}}.
+> However, you **don't** have to specify an SSL CA certificate via `TIDB_CA_PATH`, because Node.js uses the built-in [Mozilla CA certificate](https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates) by default, which is trusted by {{{ .starter }}} and {{{ .essential }}}.
 
 ### Insert data