Dependency-free single binary

[ghost]

Hi,
would it be possible to release a version that would be dependency-free(tikv, pd...) single binary, like cockroach db?

[morgo]

I am currently working on it :-)

Technical details:
It is possible to run the tidb-server with the mocktikv storage engine, and no pd or tikv. Mocktikv is based on goleveldb, which is much slower than TiKV (5x in my tests), but it is useful for development environments to test TiDB compatibility. For production, it will always be recommended to use TiKV.

May I ask which platform you are interested in?

[ghost]

That's good news.
Why goleveldb and not badger though? Doesn't that require cgo?

[morgo]

Badger support may be added in the future.

Goleveldb is a port to Go, and doesn't require cgo. The test-suite currently uses TiDB without tikv or pd, so most of the work is already done. It still requires packaging and misc bug fixes such as #8836 and #8886