This adds compatibility for TiDB to SQLAlchemy.

• TiDB 4.x and newer
• SQLAlchemy 1.4.x
• Python 3.8 and newer

pip install git+https://github.com/pingcap/sqlalchemy-tidb.git@main

In your Python app, you can connect to the database via:

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
engine = create_engine("tidb://username:password@ip:port/database_name?charset=utf8mb4")

• TiDB only support FOREIGN KEY constraints since v6.6.0(#18209).
• TiDB only support SAVEPOINT since v6.2.0(#6840).

Bootstrap your environment with virtualenv and requirements installed

make bootstrap

You can run the tests using the following command:

make all
# Or running test with `tox` for a specified python version
tox -e py39
# Or running test directly using `pytest`
pytest "test/test_suite.py::DateTest"

To know more about developing the TiDB dialect, checkout the guide on sqlalchemy:

• https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/blob/rel_1_4/README.dialects.rst
• https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/blob/rel_1_4/README.unittests.rst