Designing superprojections

Superprojections have the following requirements:

• They must contain every column within the table.

• For a K-safe design, superprojections must either be replicated on all nodes within the database cluster (for dimension tables) or paired with buddies and segmented across all nodes (for very large tables and medium large tables). See Projections and High availability with projections for an overview of projections and how they are stored. See Designing for K-safety for design specifics.

To provide maximum usability, superprojections need to minimize storage requirements while maximizing query performance. To achieve this, the sort order for columns in superprojections is based on storage requirements and commonly used queries.