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.