TiKV

TiKV is a CNCF-graduated distributed transactional key-value database built in Rust with Raft consensus. Originally created to complement TiDB, it provides horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability with ACID transaction support. Client APIs are available for Java, Rust, Python, Go, and C++. An HTTP management API provides status, configuration, and monitoring endpoints.

TiKV publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Configuration API, Debug API, Metrics API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include ACID, CNCF, Database, Distributed Systems, and Key-Value Store.

The TiKV catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

TiKV’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, and 27 more developer resources.

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39.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 50/100 alive self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
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ACID CNCF Database Distributed Systems Key-Value Store Open Source Rust

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Composite quality — 39.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 7.4 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 13

Access Clarity 1.4 / 13

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 8

Contract Governance 1.1 / 8

Discoverability 3.7 / 7

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
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Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	58.1	-	1

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

TiKV Java Client

The official Java client for TiKV. Supports raw key-value operations and transactional operations via gRPC. Available on Maven Central.

TiKV Rust Client

The official Rust client for TiKV providing raw and transactional key-value access to TiKV clusters.

TiKV Python Client

The official Python client for TiKV supporting raw and transactional key-value operations.

TiKV Configuration API

TiKV node configuration management

TiKV Debug API

Debug and diagnostic endpoints

TiKV Metrics API

Prometheus metrics endpoint

TiKV Regions API

Region management and inspection

TiKV Status API

Node status and health

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Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

TiKV HTTP Management Configuration API

OPEN COLLECTION

TiKV HTTP Management Configuration Debug API

OPEN COLLECTION

TiKV HTTP Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

TiKV HTTP Management Configuration Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

TiKV HTTP Management Configuration Regions API

OPEN COLLECTION

TiKV HTTP Management Configuration Status API

OPEN COLLECTION

TiKV API pricing

Not yet checked against TiKV's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from github.com/tikv/tikv; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
TiKV (Open Source) freemium	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Operator-Configured Throughput: see operator configuration varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against TiKV's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

TiKV Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

TiKV Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

TiKV

4 quoted statements, read from TiKV's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

TiKV

2 quoted statements, read from TiKV's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

TiKV Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Tikv Context

14 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

TiKV — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

TiKV API Rules

4 rules · 2 error-severity 2 warn-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

TiKV Region

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

TiKV Region Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

TiKV Getregionbyid Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

TiKV Getstatus Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

TiKV Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

TiKV Agentic Access

10 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

SDKs

SDKs

SDKs

SDKs

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Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

Community

RoadMap

Slack

Forums

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Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

License

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Governance

Governance

CNCF

CNCF

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tikv
name: TiKV
description: TiKV is a CNCF-graduated distributed transactional key-value database built in Rust with Raft consensus. Originally
  created to complement TiDB, it provides horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability with ACID transaction
  support. Client APIs are available for Java, Rust, Python, Go, and C++. An HTTP management API provides status, configuration,
  and monitoring endpoints.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  license_evidence:
    repo: tikv/tikv
    spdx: Apache-2.0
    stars: 16874
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  try_now_blocked_by: loopback
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tikv.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tikv/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- ACID
- CNCF
- Database
- Distributed Systems
- Key-Value Store
- Open Source
- Rust
tags_raw:
- ACID
- CNCF
- Database
- Distributed Systems
- Key-Value Store
- Open Source
- Rust
- Open-Source
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tikv:tikv-client-java
  name: TiKV Java Client
  description: The official Java client for TiKV. Supports raw key-value operations and transactional operations via gRPC.
    Available on Maven Central.
  humanURL: https://github.com/tikv/client-java
  tags:
  - Database
  - Java
  - Key-Value Store
  - SDK
  tags_raw:
  - Database
  - Java
  - Key-Value
  - SDK
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/tikv/client-java
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/tikv/client-java
- aid: tikv:tikv-client-rust
  name: TiKV Rust Client
  description: The official Rust client for TiKV providing raw and transactional key-value access to TiKV clusters.
  humanURL: https://github.com/tikv/client-rust
  tags:
  - Database
  - Key-Value Store
  - Rust
  - SDK
  tags_raw:
  - Database
  - Key-Value
  - Rust
  - SDK
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/tikv/client-rust
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/tikv/client-rust
- aid: tikv:tikv-client-python
  name: TiKV Python Client
  description: The official Python client for TiKV supporting raw and transactional key-value operations.
  humanURL: https://github.com/tikv/client-py
  tags:
  - Database
  - Key-Value Store
  - Python
  - SDK
  tags_raw:
  - Database
  - Key-Value
  - Python
  - SDK
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/tikv/client-py
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/tikv/client-py
- aid: tikv:tikv-configuration-api
  name: TiKV Configuration API
  description: TiKV node configuration management
  humanURL: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
  baseURL: http://localhost:20160
  tags:
  - Configuration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tikv-configuration-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
- aid: tikv:tikv-debug-api
  name: TiKV Debug API
  description: Debug and diagnostic endpoints
  humanURL: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
  baseURL: http://localhost:20160
  tags:
  - Debug
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tikv-debug-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
- aid: tikv:tikv-metrics-api
  name: TiKV Metrics API
  description: Prometheus metrics endpoint
  humanURL: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
  baseURL: http://localhost:20160
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tikv-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
- aid: tikv:tikv-regions-api
  name: TiKV Regions API
  description: Region management and inspection
  humanURL: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
  baseURL: http://localhost:20160
  tags:
  - Regions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tikv-regions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
- aid: tikv:tikv-status-api
  name: TiKV Status API
  description: Node status and health
  humanURL: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
  baseURL: http://localhost:20160
  tags:
  - Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tikv-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tikv.org/docs/dev/deploy/monitor/api/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tikv-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tikv-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tikv-finops.yml
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/master/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tikv-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tikv-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pingcap
- type: Website
  url: https://tikv.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://tikv.org/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://tikv.org/docs/7.1/concepts/overview/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tikv
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv
- type: Governance
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md
- type: CNCF
  url: https://www.cncf.io/projects/tikv/
- type: Blog
  url: https://tikv.org/blog/
- type: Community
  url: https://tikv.org/community/
- type: RoadMap
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/tikv/tikv/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: Slack
  url: https://slack.tidb.io/invite?team=tikv-wg
- type: Forums
  url: https://internals.tidb.io/
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/tikv/client-java
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/tikv/client-rust
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/tikv/client-py
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/tikv/client-go
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/tikv-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/tikv-data-license.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

TiKV API — frequently asked questions

Does TiKV have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from TiKV, including TiKV Java Client, TiKV Rust Client and TiKV Python Client, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the TiKV API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for TiKV, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the TiKV API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for TiKV, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the TiKV API ready for AI agents?

TiKV has a Kin Score of 39.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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