TiKV is a distributed transactional key-value database originally created by to complement TiDB.

As an incubating project of the , TiKV is intended to fill the role of a unifying distributed storage layer. TiKV excels at working with data in the large by supporting petabyte scale deployments spanning trillions of rows.

The Ti in TiKV stands for titanium. Titanium has the highest strength-to-density ratio of any metallic element and is named after the Titans of Greek mythology.

You can browse a complete list on the features page.

Figure 1. The architecture of TiKV

You can read more in the documentation.

The project was originally inspired by Google Spanner and .