Creating a database: Getting started

Detailed information about databases can be found in the article Terms and definitions - Database in the "Concepts" section.

Simple self-hosted deployment

One of the following methods can be used to deploy a local single-node cluster of YDB running a single database:

• Using Docker
• From a dowloaded binary file
• In Minikube

Documentation on the deployment of mupltiple nodes clusters running number of databases is given in the Cluster management section.

Next step

After creating your database, go to Authentication - Getting started.