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TiKV overview	Some basic facts about TiKV	1	/docs

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

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Features

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Code

TiKV is written in Rust and powered by the Raft consensus algorithm.

Inspiration

TiKV was originally inspired by Google Spanner and HBase.

Architecture

The basic architecture of TiKV is described in the diagram below:

{{< figure src="/img/basic-architecture.png" caption="The architecture of TiKV" alt="TiKV architecture diagram" width="70" number="1" >}}

You can read more in the Concepts and architecture documentation.