Space Considerations - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Database Reference

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
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Published
February 2025
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Creating a secondary index causes the system to build a subtable to contain its index rows, thus adding another set of rows that requires updating each time a table row is inserted, deleted, or updated.

Secondary index subtables are also duplicated whenever a table is defined with FALLBACK. Object File System tables are defined with FALLBACK by default, and you cannot change this setting.

When compression at the data block level is enabled for their primary table, secondary index subtables are not compressed. See Compression Types Supported by Vantage for more information about data block compression.