Concepts

The pages in this section introduces some of the key concepts in Materialize:

Component	Use
Clusters	Clusters are isolated pools of compute resources for sources, sinks, indexes, materialized views, and ad-hoc queries.
Sources	Sources describe an external system you want Materialize to read data from.
Views	Views represent a named query that you want to save for repeated execution. You can use indexed views and materialized views to incrementally maintain the results of views.
Indexes	Indexes represent query results stored in memory.
Sinks	Sinks describe an external system you want Materialize to write data to.

Refer to the individual pages for more information.