You can quickly test TiDB with Docker, the source repository contains the Dockerfile which contains local tidb-server.
To install Docker on your system, you can read the document on https://docs.docker.com/
docker pull pingcap/tidb:latest
docker run --name tidb-server -d -p 4000:4000 pingcap/tidb:latest
docker pull may take a while to download images ~560M.
Then you can use official mysql client to connect to TiDB.
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -u root -D test --prompt="tidb> "
Notice: OS X user may use docker-machine ip to connect it.
Read the documents for binary deployment or docker deployment.
Go environment. Currently a 64-bit version of go >= 1.5 is required.
git clone https://github.com/pingcap/tidb.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/pingcap/tidb
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/pingcap/tidb
make
make
cd bin && ./tidb-server
In case you want to compile a specific location:
make server TARGET=$GOPATH/bin/tidb-server
The default server port is 4000 and can be changed by flag -P <port>.
Run ./tidb-server -h to see more flag options.
After you started tidb-server, you can use official mysql client to connect to TiDB.
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -u root -D test --prompt="tidb> "