TABLE
TABLE = 'strata_branch'
The table this index lives in.
A local index over the branches in the object store.
Listing branches from the bucket costs one listing plus one GET per branch for the metadata and one more for the ref, so a page that shows a dozen branches would spend two dozen requests on a question the site already knows the answer to. This is that answer in a table.
Nothing here is authoritative. Every column is a field of a branches/ object or a ref that
already exists, which is what makes it safe for an uninstall to drop the table and for
strata:reindex to rebuild it.