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TiKV is an open-source, distributed, and transactional key-value database. It is designed to scale horizontally across a large number of machines, offering high performance, strong consistency, and fault tolerance. TiKV serves as the underlying storage engine for TiDB, a distributed Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) database compatible with MySQL.

• **Horizontal Scalability:** TiKV excels at scaling horizontally, allowing you to add more machines to the cluster to handle increased data and traffic demands seamlessly.
• **Transactional Support:** It provides ACID-compliant transactional APIs, ensuring data consistency and integrity in distributed environments.
• **Raft Consensus Algorithm:** TiKV utilizes the Raft consensus algorithm to replicate data across multiple nodes, guaranteeing strong consistency and fault tolerance.
• **Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC):** It employs MVCC to handle concurrent read and write operations efficiently without locking, improving overall performance.
• **Region-based Storage:** TiKV divides data into regions, each replicated across multiple nodes for redundancy and load balancing.
• **Coprocessor Framework:** It offers a coprocessor framework that allows you to push down computation logic to the storage layer, improving query performance and reducing network overhead.

• **Scalability:** TiKV's ability to scale horizontally enables it to handle massive datasets and high traffic volumes.
• **Strong Consistency:** Raft consensus ensures data consistency across the cluster, even in the face of failures.
• **High Availability:** Its distributed architecture and replication mechanisms guarantee high availability and fault tolerance.
• **Transactional Support:** ACID-compliant transactions provide data integrity and reliability in distributed environments.
• **Performance:** TiKV's MVCC and coprocessor framework contribute to efficient read and write operations and optimized query processing.

While TiKV interactions primarily involve its client libraries and APIs, here's a conceptual example of using the TiKV Java client to perform basic operations:

```java import org.tikv.common.TiConfiguration; import org.tikv.common.TiSession; import org.tikv.raw.RawKVClient;

// Create a TiKV session TiConfiguration conf = TiConfiguration.createDefault(“127.0.0.1:2379”); TiSession session = TiSession.create(conf);

// Get a RawKV client RawKVClient client = session.createRawClient();

// Put a key-value pair client.put(“key”.getBytes(), “value”.getBytes());

// Get the value of a key byte[] value = client.get(“key”.getBytes()); System.out.println(new String(value));

// Close the session session.close(); ```

• **TiKV Official Website:** s://tikv.org/(https://tikv.org/)
• **TiKV GitHub Repository:** s://github.com/tikv/tikv(https://github.com/tikv/tikv)
• **TiKV Documentation:** s://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/tikv-overview/(https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable/tikv-overview/)