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System clusters

Overview

When you enable a Materialize region, various system clusters are pre-installed to improve the user experience as well as support system administration tasks.

quickstart cluster

A cluster named quickstart with a size of 100cc and a replication factor of 1 will be pre-installed in every environment. You can modify or drop this cluster at any time.

NOTE: The default value for the cluster session parameter is quickstart. This cluster functions as a default option, pre-created for your convenience. It allows you to quickly start running queries without needing to configure a cluster first. If the quickstart cluster is dropped, you must run SET cluster to choose a valid cluster in order to run SELECT queries. A superuser (i.e. Organization Admin) can also run ALTER SYSTEM SET cluster to change the default value.

mz_catalog_server system cluster

A system cluster named mz_catalog_server will be pre-installed in every environment. This cluster has several indexes installed to speed up SHOW commands and queries using the system catalog.

To take advantage of these indexes, Materialize will automatically re-route SHOW commands and queries using system catalog objects to the mz_catalog_server system cluster. You can disable this behavior in your session via the auto_route_catalog_queries configuration parameter.

The following characteristics apply to the mz_catalog_server cluster:

  • You are not billed for this cluster.
  • You cannot create objects in this cluster.
  • You cannot drop this cluster.
  • You can run SELECT or SUBSCRIBE queries in this cluster as long as you only reference objects in the system catalog.

mz_probe system cluster

A system cluster named mz_probe will be pre-installed in every environment. This cluster is used for internal uptime monitoring.

The following characteristics apply to the mz_probe cluster:

  • You are not billed for this cluster.
  • You cannot create objects in this cluster.
  • You cannot drop this cluster.
  • You cannot run SELECT or SUBSCRIBE queries in this cluster.

mz_support system cluster

A system cluster named mz_support will be pre-installed in every environment. This cluster is used for internal support tasks.

The following characteristics apply to the mz_support cluster:

  • You are not billed for this cluster.
  • You cannot create objects in this cluster.
  • You cannot drop this cluster.
  • You cannot run SELECT or SUBSCRIBE queries in this cluster.

mz_system system cluster

A system cluster named mz_system will be pre-installed in every environment. This cluster is used for internal system jobs.

The following characteristics apply to the mz_system cluster:

  • You are not billed for this cluster.
  • You cannot create objects in this cluster.
  • You cannot drop this cluster.
  • You cannot run SELECT or SUBSCRIBE queries in this cluster.
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