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<h1>Understanding Schemas</h1>
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<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
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<p>Ignite has a number of default schemas and supports creating custom schemas.</p>
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<p>There are two schemas that are available by default:</p>
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<p>The SYS schema, which contains a number of system views with information about cluster nodes. You can&#8217;t create tables in this schema. Refer to the <a href="/docs/2.9.0/monitoring-metrics/system-views">System Views</a> page for further information.</p>
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<p>The <a href="#public-schema">PUBLIC schema</a>, which is used by default whenever a schema is not specified.</p>
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<p>Custom schemas are created in the following cases:</p>
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<p>You can specify custom schemas in the cluster configuration. See <a href="#custom-schemas">Custom Schemas</a>.</p>
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<p>Ignite creates a schema for each cache created via one of the programming interfaces or XML configuration. See <a href="#cache-and-schema-names">Cache and Schema Names</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="public-schema">PUBLIC Schema</h2>
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<p>The PUBLIC schema is used by default whenever a schema is required and is not specified. For example, when you connect to the cluster via JDBC without setting the schema explicitly, you will connect to the PUBLIC schema.</p>
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<p>Custom schemas can be set via the <code>sqlSchemas</code> property of <code>IgniteConfiguration</code>. You can specify a list of schemas in the configuration before starting your cluster and then create objects in these schemas at runtime.</p>
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<p>Below is a configuration example with two custom schemas.</p>
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<pre class="rouge highlight"><code data-lang="xml"><span class="nt">&lt;bean</span> <span class="na">class=</span><span class="s">"org.apache.ignite.configuration.IgniteConfiguration"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;property</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"sqlConfiguration"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;bean</span> <span class="na">class=</span><span class="s">"org.apache.ignite.configuration.SqlConfiguration"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;property</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"sqlSchemas"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;list&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>MY_SCHEMA<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>MY_SECOND_SCHEMA<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/list&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/bean&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/bean&gt;</span></code></pre>
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<pre class="rouge highlight"><code data-lang="java"><span class="nc">IgniteConfiguration</span> <span class="n">cfg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nc">IgniteConfiguration</span><span class="o">();</span>
<span class="nc">SqlConfiguration</span> <span class="n">sqlCfg</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nc">SqlConfiguration</span><span class="o">();</span>
<span class="n">sqlCfg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">setSqlSchemas</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"MY_SCHEMA"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"MY_SECOND_SCHEMA"</span> <span class="o">);</span>
<span class="n">cfg</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">setSqlConfiguration</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">sqlCfg</span><span class="o">);</span></code></pre>
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<pre class="rouge highlight"><code data-lang="csharp"><span class="kt">var</span> <span class="n">cfg</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">IgniteConfiguration</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
<span class="n">SqlSchemas</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="k">new</span><span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
<span class="s">"MY_SCHEMA"</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="s">"MY_SECOND_SCHEMA"</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
<span class="p">};</span></code></pre>
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<pre class="rouge highlight"><code>This API is not presently available for C++. You can use XML configuration.</code></pre>
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<p>To connect to a specific schema via, for example, a JDBC driver, provide the schema name in the connection string:</p>
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<pre class="rouge highlight"><code data-lang="text">jdbc:ignite:thin://127.0.0.1/MY_SCHEMA</code></pre>
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<h2 id="cache-and-schema-names">Cache and Schema Names</h2>
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<p>When you create a cache with <a href="/docs/2.9.0/SQL/sql-api#configuring-queryable-fields">queryable fields</a>, you can manipulate the cached data using the <a href="/docs/2.9.0/SQL/sql-api">SQL API</a>. In SQL terms, each such cache corresponds to a separate schema whose name equals the name of the cache.</p>
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<p>Similarly, when you create a table via a DDL statement, you can access it as a key-value cache via Ignite&#8217;s supported programming interfaces. The name of the corresponding cache can be specified by providing the <code>CACHE_NAME</code> parameter in the <code>WITH</code> part of the <code>CREATE TABLE</code> statement.</p>
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<pre class="rouge highlight"><code data-lang="sql"><span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">City</span> <span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">ID</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="n">Name</span> <span class="nb">CHAR</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">35</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="n">CountryCode</span> <span class="nb">CHAR</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="n">District</span> <span class="nb">CHAR</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">20</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="n">Population</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">),</span>
<span class="k">PRIMARY</span> <span class="k">KEY</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ID</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">CountryCode</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">WITH</span> <span class="nv">"backups=1, CACHE_NAME=City"</span><span class="p">;</span></code></pre>
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<p>See the <a href="/docs/2.9.0/sql-reference/ddl#create-table">CREATE TABLE</a> page for more details.</p>
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<p>If you do not use this parameter, the cache name is defined in the following format (in capital letters):</p>
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<pre>SQL_&lt;SCHEMA_NAME&gt;_&lt;TABLE_NAME&gt;</pre>
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