> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.kinetica.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Concepts

> The core concepts behind the Kinetica database

## Topics

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  An introduction to the core concepts of *Kinetica*.

  <Card title="Entities" href="/content/concepts/entities">
    * [Schemas](/content/concepts/schemas)
    * [Types](/content/concepts/types)
    * [Tables](/content/concepts/tables)
    * [Views](/content/concepts/views)
    * [Indexes](/content/concepts/indexes)
    * [Credentials](/content/concepts/credentials)
    * [Data Sources](/content/concepts/data_sources)
    * [Data Sinks](/content/concepts/data_sinks)
    * [External Tables](/content/concepts/external_tables)
    * [Graphs](/content/graph_solver/network_graph_solver)
    * [Table Monitors](/content/concepts/table_monitors)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Features" href="/content/concepts/features">
    * [Column Compression](/content/concepts/column_compression)
    * [Dictionary Encoding](/content/concepts/dictionary_encoding)
    * [Full Text Search](/content/concepts/full_text_search)
    * [TTL](/content/concepts/ttl)
  </Card>

  <Card title="Operations" href="/content/concepts/operations">
    * [Expressions (Operators/Functions)](/content/concepts/expressions)
    * [Aggregation](/content/concepts/aggregation)
    * [Iteration](/content/concepts/iteration)
    * [Memory-Only Tables](/content/concepts/tables_memory_only)
    * [Projections](/content/concepts/projections)
    * [Joins](/content/concepts/joins)
    * [Set Unions](/content/concepts/unions)
    * [Set Intersections (Intersect)](/content/concepts/intersect)
    * [Set Subtractions (Except)](/content/concepts/except)
    * [Window](/content/concepts/window)
    * [Rollup](/content/concepts/rollup)
    * [Cube](/content/concepts/cube)
    * [Grouping Sets](/content/concepts/grouping_sets)
    * [Pivot](/content/concepts/pivot)
    * [Unpivot](/content/concepts/unpivot)
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## Product Highlights

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    The database objects that hold & organize data: schemas, types, tables, views, indexes, and the objects that connect Kinetica to external data.
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  <Card title="Features">
    Storage & retrieval features that can be applied to those objects, including compression, encoding, full-text search, and expiration.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Operations">
    The operations performed against data, from expressions and aggregation through joins, set operations, and windowing.
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## How-To Guides

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  <Card title="Quick Start Guide" icon="book" href="/content/guides/quickstart-guide/index">
    Get started with Kinetica Workbench

    Length: 15 MIN
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## Next Steps

Now that you are familiar with Kinetica's core concepts, here are a few resources to check out next:

* [SQL](/content/sql/index)
* [Load Data](/content/load_data/index)


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