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TiKV is an open source, distributed and transactional key-value database. Growing applications demand consistent performance, and unexpected write latency spikes, especially during Sorted String Table (SST) file ingestion, were hurting predictability in TiKV. Yet we found the root cause and delivered two enhancements that virtually eliminate those stalls, while keeping correctness intact. These improvements sharpen TiKV’s performance under high load, heavy data movement or bursty write patterns.
What Was the Problem?
When TiKV ingests…
