TiKV offers two APIs that you can interact with:

    API Description Atomicity Usage scenarios
    Raw A lower-level key-value API to interact directly with individual key-value pairs Single key Your application requires low latency and does not involve distributed transactions.
    Transactional A higher-level key-value API to provide ACID semantics. Multiple keys Your application requires distributed transactions.

    It is not supported to use both the raw and transactional APIs on the same keyspace.

    TiKV provides the following clients developed in different programming languages:

    Clients RawKV API TxnKV API Supported TiKV Version
    Java Client Stable Under development >= 2.0.0
    Go Client Unstable Unstable >= 5.0.0
    Rust Client Unstable Unstable >= 5.0.0
    Python Client Unstable Unstable >= 5.0.0
    C++ Client Unstable Unstable >= 5.0.0