Database Pages - A deep dive

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Hussein Nasser
Dec 06, 2025
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Databases often use fixed-size pages to store data. Tables, collections, rows, columns, indexes, sequences, documents and more eventually end up as bytes in a page. This way the storage engine can be separated from the database frontend responsible for data format and API. Moreover, this makes it easier to read, write or cache data when everything is a …

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