Start locally

Your machine.
Your database.

Download Polybase 0.1.0-preview.1 for free evaluation. The archive includes four command-line tools, a browser console, guides and dependency notices.

Archives are hosted on GitHub. Windows, Intel Mac and ARM Linux builds are not included.

Check and extract.

Download the matching checksum file alongside your archive. On Mac, run shasum -a 256 -c ARCHIVE.tar.gz.sha256. On Linux, run sha256sum -c ARCHIVE.tar.gz.sha256. Then extract with tar -xzf ARCHIVE.tar.gz and open the extracted directory in Terminal.

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Create your first database.

./bin/polybase --version
./bin/polybase init ./my-db
./bin/polybase batch ./my-db put projects/one active put projects/two planned
./bin/polybase-console ./my-db

Open http://127.0.0.1:7340. Stop the console with Ctrl-C before opening the same directory from another command. Use a local filesystem and disposable evaluation data.

Opening the Mac preview.

If macOS blocks an executable and you choose to allow it, follow Apple’s Open Anyway procedure in System Settings → Privacy & Security. You do not need to disable Gatekeeper globally.

Continue from here.

The guide covers CLI usage, uncertain writes, query cursors, backups and the optional three-node lab. Privacy & use explains local storage and the evaluation terms. A hosted SaaS is coming soon; this download runs locally.