TiKV is a distributed transactional key-value database. It provides conventional key-value operations alongside ACID-compliant distributed transactions.
TiKV uses the Raft consensus algorithm to replicate data and maintain consistency across nodes. Data is stored locally using RocksDB, while the Placement Driver manages cluster metadata, automatic sharding, data migration and load balancing. TiKV can operate independently or serve as the distributed storage layer for TiDB.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides raw key-value and transactional APIs.
- Supports ACID-compliant distributed transactions.
- Uses Raft consensus for replication and data consistency.
- Offers horizontal scaling across large clusters.
- Supports automatic sharding, data migration and load balancing through the Placement Driver.
- Provides geo-replication for resilient distributed deployments.
- Supports snapshot isolation and externally consistent reads and writes.
- Includes a coprocessor framework for distributed computation close to stored data.
- Uses RocksDB as its local storage engine.
- Integrates with TiDB as its distributed storage layer.
- Offers client libraries for Go, Java, Rust and C.
- Supports Linux on x86-64 and ARM64 systems.
Website: github.com/tikv/tikv
Support:
Developer: The TiKV Authors
License: Apache License 2.0
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|---|---|
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| ArangoDB | Native multi-model database |
| Aerospike CE | Real-time NoSQL database and key-value store |
| Berkeley DB | Family of open source, embeddable databases |
| LevelDB | Fast and lightweight key/value database library by Google |
| Garnet | Remote cache-store |
| KeyDB | High performance fork of Redis |
| Redict | Distributed key/value store |
| Project Voldemort | Distributed data store |
| Scalaris | Distributed transactional key-value store |
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