Glossary: System Design Basics in Java
Index
Also written: indexes, indices
A sorted list of one column's values pointing at their rows, so the database can jump straight to matches instead of scanning every row, at a small cost to writes.
Glossary: System Design Basics in Java
Also written: indexes, indices
A sorted list of one column's values pointing at their rows, so the database can jump straight to matches instead of scanning every row, at a small cost to writes.