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Table of Contents

For Ignite 3.x the concept is formulated for the distributed table. The table is the base component that allows a store and updates data in the cluster. The table provides a base guaranty of consistency of data writes/reads.

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Mapping entry to partition

All A table entry will have two partsconsists of:

• Key part - a set of unique columns. It can be interpreted as the primary key.
• Value part, it is another columns.

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• Optional Affinity part - a fixed subset of Key columns that define a partition the entry belongs to. By default, Affinity part = Key part.
• Value part, it is another columns.

Flow description

Table starts to create through public API. In the time a partition distribution is being calculated and will have been available into each node when the table is returned to the client code.

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