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In the 135860486 storage model, there are 2 logical components :

1. a `Writer` for ingesting data (both inserts/updates) into the def~table 
2. a `Compactor` for creating compacted views

this def~table-type, records written to the def~table, are quickly first written to def~log-files, which are at a later time merged with the def~base-file, using a def~compaction action on the timeline. Various def~query-types can be supported depending on whether the query reads the merged snapshot or the change stream in the logs or the un-merged base-file alone.

At a high level, 135860486 writer goes through same stages as def~copy-on-write writer in ingesting data. The key difference here is that updates are appended to latest log (delta) file belonging to the latest file slice without merging. For inserts, Hudi supports 2 modes:

1. Inserts to Log Files - This is done for def~tables that have an indexable log files (for eg global eg def~hbase-index)
2. Inserts to parquet files - This is done for def~tables that do not have indexable log files, for eg bloom index

1. eg def~bloom-index

As in the case of def~copy-on-write, the input tagged records are partitioned such that all upserts destined to a `file id` a def~file-id are grouped together. This upsert-batch is written as one or more log-blocks written to log def~log-files. Hudi allows clients to control log file sizes (See [Storage Configs](. ./configurations))
The WriteClient API is same for both def~copy-on-write and 135860486 writers. With 135860486, several rounds of data-writes would have resulted in accumulation of one or more log-files. All these log-files along with base-parquet (if exists) constitute a `file slice` a  def~file-slice which represents one complete version of the file.

This table type is the most versatile, highly advanced and offers much flexibility for writing (ability specify different compaction policies, absorb bursty write traffic etc) and querying (e.g: tradeoff data freshness and query performance). At the same time, it can involve a learning curve for mastering it operationally.