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TiKV — Rust Raft for TiDB

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PingCAP's distributed KV, storage layer of TiDB. MultiRaft in Rust via raft-rs. Rust's memory safety eliminates a whole class of consensus bugs. Powers TiDB, TiCDC, and many CNCF projects.

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