This document describes the software and hardware requirements for deploying and running the TiDB database. As an open-source distributed SQL database with high performance, TiDB can be deployed in the Intel architecture server, ARM architecture server, and major virtualization environments and runs well. TiDB supports most of the major hardware networks and Linux operating systems.
OS and platform requirements
Operating systems
Supported CPU architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 or a later 8.x version
x86_64
ARM 64
Amazon Linux 2
x86_64
ARM 64
Amazon Linux 2023
x86_64
ARM 64
Rocky Linux 9.1 or later
x86_64
ARM 64
Kylin Euler V10 SP1/SP2
x86_64
ARM 64
UnionTech OS (UOS) V20
x86_64
ARM 64
openEuler 22.03 LTS SP1/SP3
x86_64
ARM 64
macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
x86_64
ARM 64
Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 or a later
x86_64
Ubuntu LTS 20.04 or later
x86_64
CentOS 8 Stream
x86_64
ARM 64
Debian 10 (Buster) or later
x86_64
Fedora 38 or later
x86_64
openSUSE Leap later than v15.5 (not including Tumbleweed)
x86_64
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
x86_64
Note
For Oracle Enterprise Linux, TiDB supports the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK) and does not support the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel provided by Oracle Enterprise Linux.
According to CentOS Linux EOL, the upstream support for CentOS Linux 7 ends on June 30, 2024. TiDB ends the support for CentOS 7 starting from the 8.4 DMR version. It is recommended to use Rocky Linux 9.1 or a later version. While the upstream support for CentOS Linux 8 ends on December 31, 2021, CentOS Stream 8 continues to be supported by the CentOS organization.
According to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle, the maintenance support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ends on June 30, 2024. TiDB ends the support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 starting from the 8.4 DMR version. It is recommended to use Rocky Linux 9.1 or a later version.
Support for Ubuntu 16.04 will be removed in future versions of TiDB. Upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 or later is strongly recommended.
If you are using the 32-bit version of an operating system listed in the preceding table, TiDB is not guaranteed to be compilable, buildable or deployable on the 32-bit operating system and the corresponding CPU architecture, or TiDB does not actively adapt to the 32-bit operating system.
Other operating system versions not mentioned above might work but are not officially supported.
Starting from v8.4.0, TiDB requires glibc 2.28. If your glibc version does not meet this requirement, it is recommended to use an operating system listed in the preceding table or upgrade the operating system to a version that supports glibc 2.28.
Libraries required for compiling and running TiDB
Libraries required for compiling and running TiDB
Version
Golang
1.23 or later
Rust
nightly-2023-12-28 or later
GCC
7.x
LLVM
17.0 or later
Library required for running TiDB: glibc (2.28-151.el8 version)
You can deploy and run TiDB on the 64-bit generic hardware server platform in the Intel x86-64 architecture or on the hardware server platform in the ARM architecture. The requirements and recommendations about server hardware configuration (ignoring the resources occupied by the operating system itself) for development, test, and production environments are as follows:
In the test environment, the TiDB and PD instances can be deployed on the same server.
For performance-related test, do not use low-performance storage and network hardware configuration, in order to guarantee the correctness of the test result.
For the TiKV server, it is recommended to use NVMe SSDs to ensure faster reads and writes.
If you only want to test and verify the features, follow Quick Start Guide for TiDB to deploy TiDB on a single machine.
Starting from v6.3.0, to deploy TiFlash under the Linux AMD64 architecture, the CPU must support the AVX2 instruction set. Ensure that grep avx2 /proc/cpuinfo has output. To deploy TiFlash under the Linux ARM64 architecture, the CPU must support the ARMv8 instruction set architecture. Ensure that grep 'crc32' /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'asimd' has output. By using the instruction set extensions, TiFlash's vectorization engine can deliver better performance.
Production environment
Component
CPU
Memory
Hard Disk Type
Network
Number of Instances (Minimum Requirement)
TiDB
16 core+
48 GB+
SSD
10 Gigabit network card (2 preferred)
2
PD
8 core+
16 GB+
SSD
10 Gigabit network card (2 preferred)
3
TiKV
16 core+
64 GB+
SSD
10 Gigabit network card (2 preferred)
3
TiFlash
48 core+
128 GB+
1 or more SSDs
10 Gigabit network card (2 preferred)
2
TiCDC
16 core+
64 GB+
SSD
10 Gigabit network card (2 preferred)
2
Monitor
8 core+
16 GB+
SAS
Gigabit network card
1
Note
In the production environment, the TiDB and PD instances can be deployed on the same server. If you have a higher requirement for performance and reliability, try to deploy them separately.
It is strongly recommended to configure TiDB, TiKV, and TiFlash with at least 8 CPU cores each in the production environment. To get better performance, a higher configuration is recommended.
It is recommended to keep the size of TiKV hard disk within 4 TB if you are using PCIe SSDs or within 1.5 TB if you are using regular SSDs.
If you deploy TiKV on a cloud provider, such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, it is recommended to use cloud disks for TiKV nodes. Data on local disks might be lost if the TiKV instance crashes in the cloud environment.
Before you deploy TiFlash, note the following items:
It is recommended to use a high-performance SSD as the first disk of the TiFlash data directory to buffer the real-time replication of TiKV data. The performance of this disk should not be lower than that of TiKV, such as PCIe SSD. The disk capacity should be no less than 10% of the total capacity; otherwise, it might become the bottleneck of this node. You can deploy ordinary SSDs for other disks, but note that a better PCIe SSD brings better performance.
It is recommended to deploy TiFlash on different nodes from TiKV. If you must deploy TiFlash and TiKV on the same node, increase the number of CPU cores and memory, and try to deploy TiFlash and TiKV on different disks to avoid interfering each other.
The total capacity of the TiFlash disks is calculated in this way: the data volume of the entire TiKV cluster to be replicated / the number of TiKV replicas * the number of TiFlash replicas. For example, if the overall planned capacity of TiKV is 1 TB, the number of TiKV replicas is 3, and the number of TiFlash replicas is 2, then the recommended total capacity of TiFlash is 1024 GB / 3 * 2. You can replicate only the data of some tables. In such case, determine the TiFlash capacity according to the data volume of the tables to be replicated.
Before you deploy TiCDC, note that it is recommended to deploy TiCDC on PCIe SSD disks larger than 500 GB.
Network requirements
As an open-source distributed SQL database, TiDB requires the following network port configuration to run. Based on the TiDB deployment in actual environments, the administrator can open relevant ports in the network side and host side.
Component
Default Port
Description
TiDB
4000
the communication port for the application and DBA tools
TiDB
10080
the communication port to report TiDB status
TiKV
20160
the TiKV communication port
TiKV
20180
the communication port to report TiKV status
PD
2379
the communication port between TiDB and PD
PD
2380
the inter-node communication port within the PD cluster
TiFlash
9000
the TiFlash TCP service port
TiFlash
3930
the TiFlash RAFT and Coprocessor service port
TiFlash
20170
the TiFlash Proxy service port
TiFlash
20292
the port for Prometheus to pull TiFlash Proxy metrics
TiFlash
8234
the port for Prometheus to pull TiFlash metrics
TiCDC
8300
the TiCDC communication port
Monitoring
9090
the communication port for the Prometheus service
Monitoring
12020
the communication port for the NgMonitoring service
Node_exporter
9100
the communication port to report the system information of every TiDB cluster node
Blackbox_exporter
9115
the Blackbox_exporter communication port, used to monitor the ports in the TiDB cluster
Grafana
3000
the port for the external Web monitoring service and client (Browser) access
Alertmanager
9093
the port for the alert web service
Alertmanager
9094
the alert communication port
Disk space requirements
Component
Disk space requirement
Healthy disk usage
TiDB
At least 30 GB for the log disk
Starting from v6.5.0, Fast Online DDL (controlled by the tidb_ddl_enable_fast_reorg variable) is enabled by default to accelerate DDL operations, such as adding indexes. If DDL operations involving large objects exist in your application, or you want to use IMPORT INTO to import data, it is highly recommended to prepare additional SSD disk space for TiDB (100 GB or more). For detailed configuration instructions, see Set a temporary space for a TiDB instance
Lower than 90%
PD
At least 20 GB for the data disk and for the log disk, respectively
Lower than 90%
TiKV
At least 100 GB for the data disk and for the log disk, respectively
Lower than 80%
TiFlash
At least 100 GB for the data disk and at least 30 GB for the log disk, respectively
Lower than 80%
TiUP
Control machine: No more than 1 GB space is required for deploying a TiDB cluster of a single version. The space required increases if TiDB clusters of multiple versions are deployed.
Deployment servers (machines where the TiDB components run): TiFlash occupies about 700 MB space and other components (such as PD, TiDB, and TiKV) occupy about 200 MB space respectively. During the cluster deployment process, the TiUP cluster requires less than 1 MB of temporary space (/tmp directory) to store temporary files.
N/A
Ngmonitoring
Conprof: 3 x 1 GB x Number of components (each component occupies about 1 GB per day, 3 days in total) + 20 GB reserved space
Top SQL: 30 x 50 MB x Number of components (each component occupies about 50 MB per day, 30 days in total)
Conprof and Top SQL share the reserved space
N/A
Web browser requirements
TiDB relies on Grafana to provide visualization of database metrics. A recent version of Microsoft Edge, Safari, Chrome or Firefox with Javascript enabled is sufficient.
Hardware and software requirements for TiFlash disaggregated storage and compute architecture
The preceding TiFlash software and hardware requirements are for the coupled storage and compute architecture. Starting from v7.0.0, TiFlash supports the disaggregated storage and compute architecture. In this architecture, TiFlash is divided into two types of nodes: the Write Node and the Compute Node. The requirements for these nodes are as follows:
Network port: remain the same as the coupled storage and compute architecture, see Network.
Disk space:
TiFlash Write Node: it is recommended to configure at least 200 GB of disk space, which is used as a local buffer when adding TiFlash replicas and migrating Region replicas before uploading data to Amazon S3. In addition, an object storage compatible with Amazon S3 is required.
TiFlash Compute Node: it is recommended to configure at least 100 GB of disk space, which is mainly used to cache the data read from the Write Node to improve performance. The cache of the Compute Node might be fully used, which is normal.
CPU and memory requirements are described in the following sections.
Development and test environments
Component
CPU
Memory
Local Storage
Network
Number of Instances (Minimum Requirement)
TiFlash Write Node
16 cores+
32 GB+
SSD, 200 GB+
Gigabit Ethernet
1
TiFlash Compute Node
16 cores+
32 GB+
SSD, 100 GB+
Gigabit Ethernet
0 (see the following note)
Production environment
Component
CPU
Memory
Disk Type
Network
Number of Instances (Minimum Requirement)
TiFlash Write Node
32 cores+
64 GB+
1 or more SSDs
10 Gigabit Ethernet (2 recommended)
1
TiFlash Compute Node
32 cores+
64 GB+
1 or more SSDs
10 Gigabit Ethernet (2 recommended)
0 (see the following note)
Note
You can use deployment tools such as TiUP to quickly scale in or out the TiFlash Compute Node, within the range of [0, +inf].