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Apache Druid stores data partitioned by time chunk in immutable files called segments. Data management operations involving replacing, or deleting, these segments include:

• Updates to existing data.
• Deletion of existing data.
• Schema changes for new and existing data.
• Compaction and automatic compaction, which reindex existing data to optimize storage footprint and performance.