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title: "EntityStore"
slug: "entitystore"
abstract: "Overview of what the EntityStore supports."
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# EntityStore

A Commerce EntityStore is an abstract mechanism for specifying the persistence and retrieval of Commerce entities. The EntityStore provides a customization point that allows you to customize where and how entities are persisted. Sitecore XC uses an SQL-based EntityStore.

A Commerce EntityStore is policy-driven and leverages plugins for persistence. In addition, an EntityStore supports:

- Simple extensible entity storage
- Distributed caching
- Pluggable encryption
- A uniform transactional model