An organized collection of data, typically optimized to support receiving or querying certain information efficiently.

Example

Any kind of key value store (e.g., etcd in Kubernetes, or kvs the “key value store” in Flux) that can store some component of state for a cluster, resource, or application.

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Suggested Citation:

Converged Computing Authors. "Database." Converged Computing Community Space 05 Jul 2026, https://converged-computing.org/docs/database/ (accessed 05 Jul 26). [doi]