Configure

TiKV features a large number of configuration parameters you can use to tweak TiKV’s behavior. When getting started with TiKV, it’s usually safe to start with the defaults, configuring only the --pd (pd.endpoints) option.

There are several guides that you can use to inform your configuration:

• Security: Use TLS security and review security procedures.
• Topology: Use location awareness to improve resiliency and performance.
• Namespace: Use namespacing to configure resource isolation.
• Limit: Tweak rate limiting.
• Region Merge: Tweak region merging.
• RocksDB: Tweak RocksDB configuration parameters.
• Raftstore: Tweak Raftstore configuration parameters.
• Titan: Enable titan to improve performance with large values.
• PD: Tweak PD parameters that are not included in command-line parameters.
• Storage: Tweak storage configuration parameters.
• gRPC: Tweak gRPC configuration parameters.
• Coprocessor: Tweak Coprocessor configuration parameters.

You can find an exhaustive list of all parameters, as well as what they do, in the documented full configuration template.