Built in Rust, powered by Raft (via etcd) and inspired by the design of Google Spanner, TiKV offers simplified scheduling and auto-balancing without dependency on any distributed file system. The project serves as an open source, unifying distributed storage layer that supports strong data consistency, distributed transactions, horizontal scalability, and cloud native architecture.
“As the amount of data we are producing and collecting continues to grow at an astounding pace, organizations need a way to ensure horizontal scalability and high availability for cloud native applications,” said Siddon Tang, Chief Engineer at PingCAP and TiKV project lead. “By joining CNCF, we look forward to establishing project governance and growing a broader contributor base in this vendor neutral home – allowing us to build additional components like support for more languages and new useful features.”
TiKV was originally developed at PingCAP (https://www.pingcap.com/en/) in 2016, and today includes contributions from Samsung, Mobike, Toutiao.com, Ele.me, Tencent Cloud and UCloud. Users include Bank of Beijing, Ele.me, Hulu, Lenovo, Mobike and many others.
The TOC sponsors of the project are Bryan Cantrill and Ben Hindman.
The CNCF Sandbox is a home for early stage projects, for further clarification around project maturity levels in CNCF, please visit our outlined Graduation Criteria.
原文：https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/08/28/cncf-to-host-tikv-in-the-sandbox/