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"Zed" is an umbrella term that describes a number of different elements of the system:
- The Zed data model is the abstract definition of the data types and semantics that underlie the Zed formats.
- The Zed formats are a family of sequential (ZNG), columnar (VNG), and human-readable (ZSON) formats that all adhere to the same abstract Zed data model.
- A Zed lake is a collection of Zed data stored across one or more data pools with ACID commit semantics and accessed via a Git-like API.
- The Zed language is the system's pipeline language for performing queries, searches, analytics, transformations, or any of the above combined together.
- A Zed query is a Zed script that performs search and/or analytics.
- A Zed shaper is a Zed script that performs data transformation to shape the input data into the desired set of organizing Zed data types called "shapes", which are traditionally called schemas in relational systems but are much more flexible in the Zed system.
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Also related: The Zui Desktop Application, a graphical user interface for exploring data in Zed lakes.
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Last modified 15 September 2025