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Database

Zilliz Cloud introduces a database layer in between the clusters and collections, providing a more efficient way to manage and organize your data while supporting multi-tenancy.

What is a database​

In Zilliz Cloud, a database serves as a logical unit for organizing and managing data. To enhance data security and achieve multi-tenancy, you can create multiple databases to logically isolate data for different applications or tenants. For example, you create a database to store the data of user A and another database for user B.

The resources are structured in the following hierarchical order in Zilliz Cloud.

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It can be noted that the concept of database is only available to Dedicated clusters. Serverless and Free clusters do not have databases.

Prerequisites​

You need to have Organization Owner or Project Admin access to manage databases.

Create database​

Databases can only be created in Dedicated clusters. Upon the creation of a cluster, a default database will be created.

You can create up to 1,024 databases in a Dedicated cluster.

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You can also move created collections from one database to another. For more details, refer to Manage Collections (Console).

Drop database​

Default databases cannot be dropped.

Before dropping a database, you need to drop all collections in the database first.

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