Database Options

Introduction

Tyk Dashboard requires a persistent datastore for its operations. By default MongoDB is used. From Tyk v4.0, we also support PostgreSQL.

MongoDB is our default storage option. We support the following versions:

Note: mongo-go driver is available from Tyk 5.0.2.

MongoDB 3.x to 4.2.x

mgo driver works with MongoDB 3.x to 4.2.x too, but we no longer test MongoDB versions prior to 4.4 since they are EOL

You can also use the following as a drop-in replacement for MongoDB:

Please check here for MongoDB driver and production configurations.

From Tyk 4.0, you can use PostgreSQL as your datastore. We support the following versions:

You can also use the following as a drop in replacement for PostgreSQL:

Note

In a production environment, we only support the PostgreSQL versions listed above.

For POC, you can also use the following as replacement:

Please check here for production configurations.

See the following pages for configuring your SQL installation with Tyk:

All data stored in SQL platforms will be identical to our existing MongoDB support.

We recommend the following:

For PoC installations, you can use any of the following platforms (SQLite, PostgreSQL or MongoDB).
For production installations, we only support MongoDB or PostgreSQL