The storage used by your application records contributes to the most important part of the overall data storage allocation on the platform. There is also storage used by the files uploaded by users and that used by so-called Big Objects. Big Objects are a type of object, allowing you to store billions of records of data in the platform (we will discuss them later in this chapter). By default, in a Scratch org, you can store up to 1 million records in your Big Objects.
From the Storage Usage page under the Setup menu, you can see a summary of the storage used, including those that reside in the Salesforce Standard Objects.
Later in this chapter, we will be creating a Custom Metadata Type object to store configuration data. Storage consumed by this type of object is not reflected on the Storage Usage page and is managed and limited...
