LightDB-A Database Concepts

This section provides an overview of LightDB-A Database components and features such as high availability, parallel data loading features, and management utilities.

• About the LightDB-A Architecture
  LightDB-A Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database server with an architecture specially designed to manage large-scale analytic data warehouses and business intelligence workloads.
• About Management and Monitoring Utilities
  LightDB-A Database provides standard command-line utilities for performing common monitoring and administration tasks.
• About Concurrency Control in LightDB-A Database
  LightDB-A Database uses the PostgreSQL Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) model to manage concurrent transactions for heap tables.
• About Parallel Data Loading
  This topic provides a short introduction to LightDB-A Database data loading features.
• About Redundancy and Failover in LightDB-A Database
  This topic provides a high-level overview of LightDB-A Database high availability features.
• About Database Statistics in LightDB-A Database
  An overview of statistics gathered by the ANALYZE command in LightDB-A Database.

Parent topic: LightDB-A Database Administrator Guide