Indexes and Maps - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Database Reference

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
Release Number
Published
February 2025
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2025-11-21
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Indexes can facilitate access to data of interest in a database. Teradata offers different types of indexes that can help to optimize the performance of your relational databases.

Every table is associated with a map that determines the AMPs to which the table rows are distributed.

The following content is mainly applicable to the standard nodes of the primary cluster in VantageCloud Lake and may not apply to compute clusters on the primary cluster.

For information about the primary cluster and compute clusters, see Managing Compute Resources.