Here are all files generated or used by IoTDB

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Stand-alone

Configuration Files

under conf directory

1. iotdb-datanode.properties
2. logback.xml
3. datanode-env.sh
4. jmx.access
5. jmx.password
6. iotdb-sync-client.properties
   • only sync tool use it

under directory basedir/system/schema

1. system.properties
   • record all immutable properties, will be checked when starting IoTDB to avoid system errors

State Related Files

MetaData Related Files

under directory basedir/system/schema

Meta

1. mlog.bin
   • record the meta operation
2. mtree-1.snapshot
   • snapshot of metadata
3. mtree-1.snapshot.tmp
   • temp file, to avoid damaging the snapshot when updating it

Tags&Attributes

1. tlog.txt
   • store tags and attributes of each TimeSeries
   • about 700 bytes for each TimeSeries

Data Related Files

under directory basedir/data/

WAL

under directory basedir/wal

1. {StorageGroupName}-{TsFileName}/wal1
   • every database has several wal files, and every memtable has one associated wal file before it is flushed into a TsFile

TsFile

under directory data/sequence or unsequence/{DatabaseName}/{DataRegionId}/{TimePartitionId}/

1. {time}-{version}-{mergeCnt}.tsfile
   • normal data file
2. {TsFileName}.tsfile.mod
   • modification file
   • record delete operation

TsFileResource

1. {TsFileName}.tsfile.resource
   • descriptor and statistic file of a TsFile
2. {TsFileName}.tsfile.resource.temp
   • temp file
   • avoid damaging the tsfile.resource when updating it
3. {TsFileName}.tsfile.resource.closing
   • close flag file, to mark a tsfile closing so during restarts we can continue to close it or reopen it

Version

under directory basedir/system/databases/{DatabaseName}/{DataRegionId}/{TimePartitionId} or upgrade

1. Version-{version}
   • version file, record the max version in fileName of a database

Upgrade

under directory basedir/system/upgrade

1. upgrade.txt
   • record which files have been upgraded

Merge

under directory basedir/system/databases/{StorageGroup}/

1. merge.mods
   • modification file generated during a merge
2. merge.log
   • record the progress of a merge
3. tsfile.merge
   • temporary merge result file, an involved sequence tsfile may have one during a merge

Authority

under directory basedir/system/users/
under directory basedir/system/roles/

CompressRatio

under directory basedir/system/compression_ration

1. Ration-{compressionRatioSum}-{calTimes}
   • record compression ratio of each tsfile