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name: seekdb description: Overview skill for OceanBase SeekDB. Routes to specialized skills for installing/deploying SeekDB on a target machine and for building SeekDB from source. Use as a starting point when the user mentions seekdb, pyseekdb, "install seekdb", "build seekdb", or wants a lightweight standalone OceanBase-compatible database. For obd-managed seekdb deployments and primary-standby HA, see the separate oceanbase-deploy/seekdb skill instead. compatibility: Standalone product skill. Install and build flows have their own platform requirements — see sub-skills. metadata: author: oceanbase version: "1.0"

SeekDB

SeekDB is a lightweight OceanBase-compatible database that can run as a standalone server (Homebrew / Docker / yum / apt / Windows MSI) or as an embedded Python module (pyseekdb).

This is the entry point. Use the specialized skills below for specific tasks.

Skill Index

When to Use Which Skill

• "Install seekdb on my Mac / Linux / Windows" → install
• "I want to use seekdb from Python" → install, pip embedded mode
• "Build seekdb from source" / "make a release rpm/deb/tgz/apk/installer" → build
• "Deploy seekdb primary-standby with obd, do switchover/failover" → use the separate oceanbase-deploy/seekdb skill (lives under ../oceanbase-deploy/seekdb/SKILL.md). That skill is for obd-managed clusters; this skill is for the SeekDB product itself.

Default Ports

References

• Product documentation: https://www.oceanbase.ai/docs/seekdb-overview/
• Software download center: https://mirrors.oceanbase.com/oceanbase/community/stable/