diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ti/tidb/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ti/tidb/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index db4bd01300e2..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ti/tidb/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  buildGo125Module,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-}:
-
-buildGo125Module (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "tidb";
-  version = "8.5.6";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "pingcap";
-    repo = "tidb";
-    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
-    hash = "sha256-sQ5hialileLC/ZpXoy5zfSnLZAL1I4aiiQf+y5LPIK8=";
-  };
-
-  vendorHash = "sha256-YJ47tC1pp+hDMIiKyzROypk+zX76r+c5O9qD2OkVmgw=";
-
-  ldflags = [
-    "-X github.com/pingcap/tidb/pkg/parser/mysql.TiDBReleaseVersion=${finalAttrs.version}"
-    "-X github.com/pingcap/tidb/pkg/util/versioninfo.TiDBEdition=Community"
-  ];
-
-  subPackages = [ "cmd/tidb-server" ];
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "Open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics";
-    homepage = "https://pingcap.com";
-    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ Makuru ];
-    mainProgram = "tidb-server";
-  };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index b9dcf82ab2cf..b32d11695b1d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -2065,6 +2065,7 @@ mapAliases {
   thunderbird-128 = throw "Thunderbird 128 support ended in August 2025"; # Added 2025-09-30
   thunderbird-128-unwrapped = throw "Thunderbird 128 support ended in August 2025"; # Added 2025-09-30
   ticpp = throw "'ticpp' has been removed due to being unmaintained"; # Added 2025-09-10
+  tidb = throw "TiDB has been removed because of hard dependency on TiKV which is challenging to package"; # Added 2026-05-03
   timescaledb = throw "'timescaledb' has been removed. Use 'postgresqlPackages.timescaledb' instead."; # Added 2025-07-19
   tinyxml2 = throw "The 'tinyxml2' alias has been removed, use 'tinyxml' for https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml/ or 'tinyxml-2' for https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2"; # Added 2025-10-11
   tkcvs = throw "'tkcvs' has been renamed to/replaced by 'tkrev'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27