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title: "VAST Database Features"
slug: "vast-database-features"
updated: 2026-10-27T17:23:32Z
published: 2026-10-27T17:23:32Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/vast-database-features"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# VAST Database Features

The VAST Database is [ACID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID) compliant. All operations are transactions, thus the boundaries of these transactions can be moved at will to cover very complex activities.

In addition, all basic database operations are supported at a granular level. Updates can be across rows or columns and element store mechanics make deletions and updates very low-latency.

VAST Database compute nodes are capable of very efficient low-level capabilities that are exposed to existing query execution engines in the form of push-down operations. When a query execution engine like Trino or Spark generates a query plan, it can offload to VAST-DB the parts of the query that the database can handle more efficiently due to its closer proximity to the data.