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name: roblox-data description: Roblox data persistence: DataStoreService, MemoryStoreService, saving player data. Use when saving or loading persistent data.

Data Reference

Quick Reference

• Best practices for data stores: Guidelines that help you manage your data and data stores (DataStores) more efficiently.
• Data Stores Manager: The Data Stores Manager helps you monitor your data stores (DataStores) on Creator Hub.
• Data store error codes and limits: Error codes you might encounter and limits you might hit when using data stores (DataStores) to store data.
• Data stores: How to implement data stores (DataStores) to store persistent data.
• Data store observability: Explains how to use the observability dashboard for data stores (DataStores).
• Implement player data and purchasing systems: Guide for implementing player data and purchase handling systems.
• Data store versioning, listing, and caching: How to manage data stores (DataStores) through versioning, listing, and caching.
• Best practices when designing MemoryStore data structures: Explains how to best design data structures to reduce the chance of experiencing throttling.
• Memory store hash map: Explains how to implement the hash map data structure for memory stores.
• Memory stores: Explains how to implement memory store data structures to store frequent in-memory data.

Detailed Reference

Cloud-services

See cloud-services.md for:

• Best practices for data stores
• Data Stores Manager
• Data store error codes and limits
• Data stores
• Data store observability
• ...and 9 more