What are datastore pages and how do they work?

slothfulGuy · February 15, 2021, 4:46pm

I’m trying to make a global leaderboard for players with longest time spent in the game. But I’m confused what the DataStorePages mean? Is it the number of keys being retrieved or what?

ElusiveEpix · February 15, 2021, 5:34pm

DataStorePages are something used in OrderedDataStores that basically have a specific amount of info on each page (so they can be sorted easily). I don’t know much about this, so if someone else wants to intervene that would be fine.

slothfulGuy · February 15, 2021, 5:38pm

What is this specific amount? Is this consistent every time or can you change how many keys you want in a page?

ElusiveEpix · February 15, 2021, 7:35pm

I’m pretty sure you can change the amount of items per page.

MixedConscience · February 15, 2021, 7:42pm

Well, it returns tables on these things called “pages”. Those tables contain the keys and values that you set with :SetAsync() or :UpdateAsync()

More information on it here:

(Please dont mind my terrible grammar)

slothfulGuy · February 16, 2021, 2:11am

I have already checked the relevant articles on DevForum including the one you mentioned before making this post but it still didn’t make much sense to me.

I understand that it returns pages, but how many keys are actually being returned and can you set the number of keys you’re trying to retrieve per page?

@ElusiveEpix Do you know how would you be able to do that?