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TiDB: Build a MySQL-Compatible Distributed SQL Database on Linux

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Sep 14, 2026

This tutorial shows you how to install TiDB using TiUP, start a local cluster, connect to it with the MySQL client, and run your first queries on Ubuntu and RHEL-based Linux systems.
If you’ve ever struggled to scale MySQL beyond a single write node, TiDB offers a solution without requiring you to learn a new query language. It uses the MySQL protocol, so your existing applications, drivers, ORMs, and even the mysql client work with it. Let’s get TiDB up and running.
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