diff --git a/.github/workflows/compatibility.yml b/.github/workflows/compatibility.yml
index 88b3dc76..290c4afb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/compatibility.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/compatibility.yml
@@ -62,3 +62,16 @@ jobs:
         go mod tidy
         make
       working-directory: ticdc
+
+    - name: Checkout go-ycsb
+      uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      with:
+        repository: pingcap/go-ycsb
+        path: go-ycsb
+
+    - name: Check build
+      run: |
+        go mod edit -replace=github.com/tikv/client-go/v2=../client-go
+        go mod tidy
+        go build cmd/go-ycsb/*
+      working-directory: go-ycsb
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bbbbec4c..080ef601 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ go mod download github.com/tikv/client-go/v2
 
 `client-go` is used by the following projects:
 
-- TiDB: TiDB is an open source distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol (https://github.com/pingcap/tidb)
-- BR: A command-line tool for distributed backup and restoration of the TiDB cluster data (https://github.com/pingcap/br)
-- TiCDC: Change data capture for TiDB (https://github.com/pingcap/ticdc)
+- [TiDB](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb): TiDB is an open source distributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol
+- [BR](https://github.com/pingcap/br): A command-line tool for distributed backup and restoration of the TiDB cluster data
+- [TiCDC](https://github.com/pingcap/ticdc): Change data capture for TiDB
+- [go-ycsb](https://github.com/pingcap/go-ycsb): A Go port of Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB)
 
 ## License