diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cac91e7..19105fa 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ serde = "1.0"
 serde_derive = "1.0"
 thiserror = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["sync", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
-tonic = { version = "0.10", features = ["tls"] }
+tonic = { version = "0.10", features = ["tls", "gzip"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 clap = "2"
diff --git a/config/tikv.toml b/config/tikv.toml
index 6eef5b2..d27ebb5 100644
--- a/config/tikv.toml
+++ b/config/tikv.toml
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ max-open-files = 10000
 
 [storage]
 reserve-space = "0MiB"
+
+[server]
+grpc-compression-type = "gzip"
diff --git a/src/store/client.rs b/src/store/client.rs
index 88880c7..1c87328 100644
--- a/src/store/client.rs
+++ b/src/store/client.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use std::time::Duration;
 
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use derive_new::new;
+use tonic::codec::CompressionEncoding;
 use tonic::transport::Channel;
 
 use super::Request;
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ impl KvConnect for TikvConnect {
             .connect(address, move |channel| {
                 TikvClient::new(channel)
                     .max_decoding_message_size(self.grpc_max_decoding_message_size)
+                    .accept_compressed(CompressionEncoding::Gzip)
             })
             .await
             .map(|c| KvRpcClient::new(c, self.timeout))