Policies overview

The following table provides an overview of the policies for managing your cluster:

Policy	Description
Auto delete policy	Sets an expiry date for the table. The table is automatically deleted at this expiry time.
Cache policy	Defines how to prioritize resources. Allows customers to differentiate between hot data cache and cold data cache.
Callout policy	Manages the authorized domains for external calls.
Capacity policy	Controls the compute resources of data management operations.
Encoding policy	Defines how data is encoded, compressed, and indexed.
Extent tags retention policy	Controls the mechanism that automatically removes extent tags from tables.
Ingestion batching policy	Groups multiple data ingestion requests into batches for more efficient processing.
Ingestion time policy	Adds a hidden datetime column to the table that records the time of ingestion.
ManagedIdentity policy	Controls which managed identities can be used for what purposes.
Merge policy	Defines rules for merging data from different extents into a single extent.
Partitioning policy	Defines rules for partitioning extents for a specific table or a materialized view.
Retention policy	Controls the mechanism that automatically removes data from tables or materialized views.
Restricted view access policy	Adds an extra layer of permission requirements for principals to access and view the table.
Row level security policy	Defines rules for access to rows in a table based on group membership or execution context.
Row order policy	Maintains a specific order for rows within an extent.
Sandbox policy	Controls the usage and behavior of sandboxes, which are isolated environments for query execution.
Sharding policy	Defines rules for how extents in your cluster are created.
Streaming ingestion policy	Configurations for streaming data ingestion.
Update policy	Allows for data to be appended to a target table upon adding data to a source table.
Query weak consistency policy	Controls the level of consistency for query results.