Features
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This document highlights ScyllaDB's key data modeling features.

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   Lightweight Transactions </features/lwt/>
   Global Secondary Indexes </features/secondary-indexes/>
   Local Secondary Indexes </features/local-secondary-indexes/>
   Materialized Views </features/materialized-views/>
   Counters </features/counters/>
   Change Data Capture </features/cdc/index>
   Workload Attributes </features/workload-attributes>
   Workload Prioritization </features/workload-prioritization>
   Backup and Restore </features/backup-and-restore>
   Incremental Repair </features/incremental-repair/>
   Automatic Repair </features/automatic-repair/>
   Vector Search </features/vector-search/>

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  * Secondary Indexes and Materialized Views provide efficient search mechanisms
    on non-partition keys by creating an index.

    * :doc:`Global Secondary Indexes </features/secondary-indexes/>`
    * :doc:`Local Secondary Indexes </features/local-secondary-indexes/>`
    * :doc:`Materialized Views </features/materialized-views/>`

  * :doc:`Lightweight Transactions </features/lwt/>` provide conditional updates
    through linearizability.
  * :doc:`Counters </features/counters/>` are columns that only allow their values
    to be incremented, decremented, read, or deleted.
  * :doc:`Change Data Capture </features/cdc/index>` allows you to query the current
    state and the history of all changes made to tables in the database.
  * :doc:`Workload Attributes </features/workload-attributes>` assigned to your workloads
    specify how ScyllaDB will handle requests depending on the workload.
  * :doc:`Backup and Restore </features/backup-and-restore>` allows you to create
    backups of your data and restore it when needed.
  * :doc:`Incremental Repair </features/incremental-repair/>` provides a much more
    efficient and lightweight approach to maintaining data consistency by
    repairing only the data that has changed since the last repair.
  * :doc:`Automatic Repair </features/automatic-repair/>` schedules and runs repairs
    directly in ScyllaDB, without external schedulers.
  * :doc:`Vector Search in ScyllaDB </features/vector-search/>` enables
    similarity-based queries on vector embeddings.