Is fdb an Acronym?

[Tom M]

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to Vertica and this is my first post. I found this site doing a search for fdb.

I was looking to see if fdb is acronym. I found a reference to Firebird, but I don't think that's it.

Does anyone know?

I've heard that pidx, which are files that "travel with fdb files" stands for position index.

Thanks for your help.

[NorbertKrupa]

fdb refers to the files containing the actual data. There is a corresponding pidx file which has index & statistics on the data file. The fdb files are more commonly known as ROS containers. I would guess it stands for "file database."

Jim covers it more in this topic.