TiDB Introduction

TiDB ("Ti" stands for Titanium) is an open-source NewSQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

TiDB can be deployed on-premise or in-cloud. The following deployment options are officially supported by PingCAP:

Ansible Deployment: This guide describes how to deploy TiDB using TiDB Ansible. It is strongly recommended for production deployment.
Ansible Offline Deployment: If your environment has no access to the internet, you can follow this guide to see how to deploy a TiDB cluster offline using TiDB Ansible.
Docker Deployment: This guide describes how to deploy TiDB using Docker.
Kubernetes Deployment:
You can use TiDB Operator to deploy TiDB on:
- AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
- Google Cloud Shell
- Alibaba Cloud ACK (Container Service for Kubernetes)
  Or deploy TiDB locally using:
- kind
- Minikube
Binary Tarball Deployment: This guide describes how to deploy TiDB from a binary tarball in production. Guides for development and testing environments are also available.

Community provided blog posts & tutorials

The following list collects deployment guides and tutorials from the community. The content is subject to change by the contributors.

Your contribution is also welcome! Feel free to open a pull request to add additional links.

Source code

Source code for all components of the TiDB platform is available on GitHub.