---
title: "Get Data Store Instance"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/data-store/get-component-instance/
description: "This page describes the method to delete rows in bulk from a table in the Data Store in your Python application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2025-03-28T12:54:49Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Data Store Help"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/data-store/introduction
  - name: "SDK Scopes"
    url: /en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes
---

# Data Store 

[Catalyst Cloud Scale Data Store](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/data-store/introduction) is a cloud-based relational database management system that stores the persistent data of your application. This section covers the various methods that you can use to perform data-intensive operations in the Data Store such as fetching the metadata of the tables and columns, fetching row details, inserting new rows, updating rows, or deleting them.

### Get a component instance

A component instance is an object that can be used to access the pre-defined configurations specific to a particular component. This process will not fire a server-side call. 

The `app` reference used in the code below is the [Python object](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/setup/#initializing-the-sdk) returned as a response during SDK initialization. You can create a new `datastore_service`instance as shown below. Also note that this instance will be used in multiple scenarios while performing database specific operations.

```python
#Get Data Store component instance 
datastore_service = app.datastore()

```