TiKV is an open source distributed Key-Value database which is based on the design of Google Spanner and HBase, but it is much simpler without dependency on any distributed file system. It's has primary features including Geo-Replication, Horizontal scalability, Consistent distributed transactions, Coprocessor support.[03]
- Source Code
- https://github.com/tikv/tikv[01]
- Tech Docs
- https://www.pingcap.com/docs[02]
- Developer
- Country of Origin
- CN
- Start Year
- 2016
- Project Type
- Open Source
- Written in
- Rust
- Derived From
- Cloud Spanner, HBase
- Operating System
- Linux
- License
- Apache v2
TiKV is an open source distributed Key-Value database which is based on the design of Google Spanner and HBase, but it is much simpler without dependency on any distributed file system. It's has primary features including Geo-Replication, Horizontal scalability, Consistent distributed transactions, Coprocessor support.[03]
History[04]
Inspired by Google Spanner, PingCAP started developing TiKV in 2015, and released the first version of TiKV along with TiDB in 2016. Up to April 27, 2018, PingCAP has released TiDB/TiKV 2.0, which has a lot new features and great performance gains compared to 1.0.
