Explore the innovative TiFlash component for TiKV in this conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021. Discover how PingCAP's Xiaoyu Ma and Liquan Pei address the challenges of Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) through a novel Raft-based architecture. Learn about the columnar storage approach, consistency mechanisms, and performance improvements that enable TiKV to handle both transactional and analytical workloads seamlessly, resulting in a tenfold speed increase for analytical tasks. Gain insights into the strong workload isolation strategy and understand how TiFlash overcomes the traditional obstacles in implementing HTAP capabilities within a single platform.