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Tables & Views
Tables hold the state you write. Views hold the state ReifyDB derives from it, kept current incrementally instead of recomputed.
Incremental maintenance
When a row changes, the engine applies the delta to every affected view via change data capture and the flow engine. This section will explain the mechanism and its cost model.
Transactional vs deferred views
Transactional views update inside the writing transaction; readers can never observe them stale. Deferred views update asynchronously for cheaper writes. This section will help you choose.
Views over views
Derived state can feed further derived state. This section will cover composing views and where windowed aggregation fits.