= Term: Store =

In InfoGrid, [wiki:Store] is the core (low-level) storage abstraction. It essentially defines a name-value map.

InfoGrid provides many different implementations of the [wiki:Store] abstraction, including:
 * in-memory only
 * mapping to relational databases
 * mapping to grid storage 
 * mapping to a raw file system
 * delegation to another [wiki:Store].

On a higher level, InfoGrid provides MeshBase as the core data management abstraction, and MeshObject as the core data element. Any implementation of [wiki:Store] may be used without changes to the API.