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How does the concept of a table here differ from that of a standard relational table (if at all)? Is it that the table is a logical abstraction over a distribut
by anonymousDan 4y ago
How does the concept of a table here differ from that of a standard relational table (if at all)? Is it that the table is a logical abstraction over a distributed set of files?
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoThe underlying storage is less structured, which means that some common database optimizations (in particular row-level indexes) are unavailable in these kind of systems, but it's conceptually the same as a standard relational table.
- chrisjc 4y agoThese are effectively external tables. They likely exist on blob storage and not in any particular DB's storage system. As a result, you have a myriad of ways to interact with that data. Moreover, compute and storage resources are now decoupled.
- alexmerced 4y ago