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📖 Carolopedia › IndexGuide page
📖What it means
A structure that makes looking something up fast. Invisible in results and only noticed by its absence, when a page that used to load quickly stops doing so.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Key
A key identifies a row uniquely; an index only makes finding rows faster.
Not: Registry
An index speeds up lookups; a register is the record itself.
🗣️Also called
db indexlookup structure