ClickHouse/docs/en/operations/table_engines/log.md
Ivan Blinkov 0a4a5b36cc
Some WIP on documentation refactoring (#2659)
* Additional .gitignore entries

* Merge a bunch of small articles about system tables into single one

* Merge a bunch of small articles about formats into single one

* Adapt table with formats to English docs too

* Add SPb meetup link to main page

* Move Utilities out of top level of docs (the location is probably not yet final) + translate couple articles

* Merge MacOS.md into build_osx.md

* Move Data types higher in ToC

* Publish changelog on website alongside documentation

* Few fixes for en/table_engines/file.md

* Use smaller header sizes in changelogs

* Group up table engines inside ToC

* Move table engines out of top level too

* Specificy in ToC that query language is SQL based. Thats a bit excessive, but catches eye.

* Move stuff that is part of query language into respective folder

* Move table functions lower in ToC

* Lost redirects.txt update

* Do not rely on comments in yaml + fix few ru titles

* Extract major parts of queries.md into separate articles

* queries.md has been supposed to be removed

* Fix weird translation

* Fix a bunch of links

* There is only table of contents left

* "Query language" is actually part of SQL abbreviation

* Change filename in README.md too

* fix mistype
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Log

Log differs from TinyLog in that a small file of "marks" resides with the column files. These marks are written on every data block and contain offsets that indicate where to start reading the file in order to skip the specified number of rows. This makes it possible to read table data in multiple threads. For concurrent data access, the read operations can be performed simultaneously, while write operations block reads and each other. The Log engine does not support indexes. Similarly, if writing to a table failed, the table is broken, and reading from it returns an error. The Log engine is appropriate for temporary data, write-once tables, and for testing or demonstration purposes.