Schema properties

Discover the attributes that define schema properties and details of the built-in properties

Property attributes

Properties define the values stored in a collection's objects. These attributes describe a property:

• Name, which must be unique within the schema.
• Data type of the value.
• Description
• Options that specify whether the value is:
  • Unique within the collection
  • Indexed
  • Encrypted
  • Nullable
  • Built-in (see Built-in properties)
  • Read-only (see Built-in properties)

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The storage backend database supports standard structured data. Support for file storage is on the Vault roadmap.

Built-in properties

When Vault creates a collection, it adds built-in properties based on the schema prototype. These built-in properties are readable and are subject to the identity and access management policies in the same way that user-defined properties are. After creating a collection and adding data, read requests can include built-in properties to get the values of these properties.

These are the built-in properties:

Name	DataType	IsUnique	IsIndex	IsEncrypted	IsNullable	IsBuiltIn	IsReadOnly	Description
id	OBJECT_ID	UNIQUE	INDEX	NOT ENCRYPTED	NOT NULL	BUILTIN	READONLY	The unique identifier of an object in the collection.
_owner_id	OBJECT_ID	NOT UNIQUE	NOT INDEX	NOT ENCRYPTED	NULL	BUILTIN	NOT READONLY	The ID of the owner of the object. For associated data, this value identifies the owning object in a PERSONS collection.
_owner_collection	OBJECT_ID	NOT UNIQUE	NOT INDEX	NOT ENCRYPTED	NULL	BUILTIN	NOT READONLY	The name of the collection in which the owner of the object defined. For associated data, this value identifies the PERSONS collection containing the owner.
_tenant_id	TENANT_ID	NOT UNIQUE	NOT INDEX	NOT ENCRYPTED	NULL	BUILTIN	NOT READONLY	The ID of the tenant with access privileges for this object. Must not be set on a 'DATA' object which has an owner. In that case the tenant is taken from the owner.
_creation_time	TIMESTAMP	NOT UNIQUE	NOT INDEX	NOT ENCRYPTED	NOT NULL	BUILTIN	READONLY	The time when the object was created.
_modification_time	TIMESTAMP	NOT UNIQUE	NOT INDEX	NOT ENCRYPTED	NOT NULL	BUILTIN	READONLY	The time when the object was most recently modified.
_expiration_time	TIMESTAMP	NOT UNIQUE	NOT INDEX	NOT ENCRYPTED	NOT NULL	BUILTIN	READONLY	The time when the object is archived.

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The names of the built-in properties are prefixed with '_'. Properties defined by the user cannot have this prefix.

The definitions of the built-in properties cannot be changed. Attempts to do so when updating a collection returns an error.

The built-in properties are returned by all the REST API operations and CLI calls that return the properties of a collection, such as add collection, get all properties, etc. Both the PVSchema and JSON formats return built-in properties.