Refresh Modes

Spice supports five modes to refresh accelerated datasets. full is the default.

Mode	Description	Example
full	Replace/overwrite the entire dataset on each refresh	A table of users
append	Append/add data to the dataset on each refresh	Append-only, immutable datasets, such as time-series or log data
changes	Apply incremental inserts, updates, and deletes	Customer order lifecycle table
caching	Read-through caching for HTTP-based datasets	API search results or dynamic content endpoints
snapshot	Reload exclusively from the snapshot store	Read-only replicas bootstrapped from centralized snapshots

For cross-cutting refresh behavior — refresh intervals, on-demand refresh, retries, retention, and behavior on zero results — see Data Refresh.