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title: Concepts
description: Concepts
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This section contains a collection of high level views of concepts & features.

## Included pages

- [Architecture and capabilities](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/architecture-and-capabilities): MotherDuck's serverless architecture combining cloud scale with DuckDB's efficiency through Dual Execution.
- [Database Concepts](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/database-concepts): MotherDuck Database Concepts
- [Hypertenancy](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/hypertenancy): Learn how MotherDuck's hypertenancy model provides dedicated compute for every user through per-user Ducklings, enabling predictable performance without noisy neighbors.
- [Resource management](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/resource-management): Understand MotherDuck's resource hierarchy, from organizations, accounts, tokens, and secrets down to databases and tables, and how each level provides compute isolation, data isolation, and access control.
- [Database Snapshots](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/database-snapshots): Understand how snapshots work in MotherDuck, including retention, restore, snapshot management, and plan availability
- [pg_duckdb Extension](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/pgduckdb): Use pg_duckdb to run DuckDB analytics within PostgreSQL and connect to MotherDuck.
- [Storage Lifecycle and Management](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/storage-lifecycle): Understand how MotherDuck manages data storage across different lifecycle stages and how this affects your billing and data management strategies.
- [Data Recovery](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/data-recovery): Understand MotherDuck's data recovery mechanisms
- [Workload scaling patterns](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/scaling-patterns): Choose the right compute size, scaling approach, and connection model for your MotherDuck workload using a decision flowchart and workload-to-pattern matrix.
- [Object name resolution](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/object-name-resolution): Fully qualified naming conventions and database resolution rules in MotherDuck.
- [DuckDB Extensions in MotherDuck](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/duckdb-extensions): Supported DuckDB extensions for the MotherDuck cloud service, Web UI, and CLI.
- [DuckLake](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/ducklake): Understanding DuckLake - A high-performance open table format for petabyte-scale analytics
- [Results](https://motherduck.com/docs/concepts/results): Results

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