> ## 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

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An introduction to the core concepts of *Kinetica*.

## Entities

* [Schemas](/content/concepts/schemas)

* [Types](/content/concepts/types)

  * [Data Types](/content/concepts/types#types-chart)

    * [Array](/content/concepts/array)
    * [JSON](/content/concepts/json)
    * [Vector](/content/vector_search#vector-type)

  * [Column Properties](/content/concepts/types#column-properties)

  * [Nulls](/content/concepts/nulls)

* [Tables](/content/concepts/tables)

  * [Distribution (Sharding/Replication)](/content/concepts/tables#distribution)
  * [Partitioning](#partitioning)
  * [Primary Key](#primary-key)
  * [Soft Primary Key](#soft-primary-key)
  * [Shard Key](#shard-key)
  * [Foreign Key](#foreign-key)

* [Views](/content/concepts/views)

  * [Filtered](/content/concepts/filtered_views)
  * [Joined](/content/concepts/joins)
  * [Materialized](/content/concepts/materialized_views)

* [Indexes](/content/concepts/indexes)

  * [Primary Key](/content/concepts/indexes#primary-key-index)
  * [Relational](/content/concepts/indexes#relational-index)
  * [Column (Attribute)](/content/concepts/indexes#column-index)
  * [Low-Cardinality](/content/concepts/indexes#low-cardinality-index)
  * [Chunk Skip](/content/concepts/indexes#chunk-skip-index)
  * [Geospatial](/content/concepts/indexes#geospatial-index)
  * [CAGRA](/content/concepts/indexes#cagra-index)
  * [HNSW](/content/concepts/indexes#hnsw-index)

* [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)

## 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)

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## 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)