Stores Guide
Provides persistent, embedded, dictionary, and memory stores.
Use the material in this section to learn how to use and
manage stores.
- Stores
Overview
Provides structured data storage, using networks of streams.
- Introduction
to Stores
A store is a collection of streams and is a fundamental part of
the operating system.
- Persistent
stores
A store is persistent if you can close it, re-open it, and then
gain access to the same data. For example, data files on disk are persistent
data stores.
- Embedded stores
An embedded store can contain an arbitrarily complex network of
streams and is a persistent store.
- Dictionary
stores
Dictionary stores are stores where the streams are accessed using
a UID, rather than directly by stream ID.
- Memory
Stores
Introduces in-RAM stores.
- Transactions
Describes how to use transactions.
- Space reclamation
and compaction
Topics related to reclamation and compaction.