Basic Concepts and Terminology

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  • FE: Frontend - compute engine
  • Blackhole - storeage engine

Instance

In Hologres, an instance is a cluster that contains multiple databases.

Database

Hologres is fully compatible with Postgres. A database in Hologres is a set of schemas, which is the same with Postgres’s definition.

All the operations on tabels, functions, etc are inside a database.

Table

Table is the unit of data storage.