diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_common_nd_array.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_common_nd_array.py
index fe7fc786e6..58859d418b 100644
--- a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_common_nd_array.py
+++ b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_common_nd_array.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from .options._soma_tiledb_context import (
     SOMATileDBContext,
 )
-from .options._tiledb_create_options import TileDBCreateOptions
+from .options._tiledb_create_write_options import TileDBCreateOptions
 
 
 class NDArray(SOMAArray, somacore.NDArray):
diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dataframe.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dataframe.py
index 5bfca2a92c..951234aeb5 100644
--- a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dataframe.py
+++ b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dataframe.py
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@
 from ._types import NPFloating, NPInteger, OpenTimestamp, Slice, is_slice_of
 from .options import SOMATileDBContext
 from .options._soma_tiledb_context import _validate_soma_tiledb_context
-from .options._tiledb_create_options import TileDBCreateOptions, TileDBWriteOptions
+from .options._tiledb_create_write_options import (
+    TileDBCreateOptions,
+    TileDBWriteOptions,
+)
 
 _UNBATCHED = options.BatchSize()
 AxisDomain = Union[None, Tuple[Any, Any], List[Any]]
@@ -773,7 +776,7 @@ def _fill_out_slot_domain(
 
 def _find_extent_for_domain(
     index_column_name: str,
-    tiledb_create_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
+    tiledb_create_write_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
     dtype: Any,
     slot_domain: Tuple[Any, Any],
 ) -> Any:
@@ -783,7 +786,7 @@ def _find_extent_for_domain(
     """
 
     # Default 2048 mods to 0 for 8-bit types and 0 is an invalid extent
-    extent = tiledb_create_options.dim_tile(index_column_name)
+    extent = tiledb_create_write_options.dim_tile(index_column_name)
     if isinstance(dtype, np.dtype) and dtype.itemsize == 1:
         extent = 64
 
diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dense_nd_array.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dense_nd_array.py
index b222ed6b87..a64573afbe 100644
--- a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dense_nd_array.py
+++ b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_dense_nd_array.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     SOMATileDBContext,
     _validate_soma_tiledb_context,
 )
-from .options._tiledb_create_options import TileDBCreateOptions
+from .options._tiledb_create_write_options import TileDBCreateOptions
 
 
 class DenseNDArray(NDArray, somacore.DenseNDArray):
@@ -287,10 +287,10 @@ def write(
         self._set_reader_coords(clib_dense_array, new_coords)
         clib_dense_array.write(input)
 
-        tiledb_create_options = TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+        tiledb_create_write_options = TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
             platform_config
         )
-        if tiledb_create_options.consolidate_and_vacuum:
+        if tiledb_create_write_options.consolidate_and_vacuum:
             clib_dense_array.consolidate_and_vacuum()
         return self
 
diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_sparse_nd_array.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_sparse_nd_array.py
index 44f10d5bc1..ddca9d6596 100644
--- a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_sparse_nd_array.py
+++ b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_sparse_nd_array.py
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@
     SOMATileDBContext,
     _validate_soma_tiledb_context,
 )
-from .options._tiledb_create_options import TileDBCreateOptions, TileDBWriteOptions
+from .options._tiledb_create_write_options import (
+    TileDBCreateOptions,
+    TileDBWriteOptions,
+)
 
 _UNBATCHED = options.BatchSize()
 
diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_util.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_util.py
index df19260738..a55b223a78 100644
--- a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_util.py
+++ b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/_util.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 from . import pytiledbsoma as clib
 from ._types import OpenTimestamp, Slice, is_slice_of
-from .options._tiledb_create_options import (
+from .options._tiledb_create_write_options import (
     TileDBCreateOptions,
     _ColumnConfig,
     _DictFilterSpec,
diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/io/ingest.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/io/ingest.py
index 8c3cf27600..d2fa1ad95e 100644
--- a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/io/ingest.py
+++ b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/io/ingest.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 )
 from ..options import SOMATileDBContext
 from ..options._soma_tiledb_context import _validate_soma_tiledb_context
-from ..options._tiledb_create_options import TileDBCreateOptions
+from ..options._tiledb_create_write_options import TileDBCreateOptions
 from . import conversions
 from ._common import (
     _DATAFRAME_ORIGINAL_INDEX_NAME_JSON,
@@ -1105,10 +1105,10 @@ def _extract_new_values_for_append(
 def _write_arrow_table(
     arrow_table: pa.Table,
     handle: Union[DataFrame, SparseNDArray],
-    tiledb_create_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
+    tiledb_create_write_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
 ) -> None:
     """Handles num-bytes capacity for remote object stores."""
-    cap = tiledb_create_options.remote_cap_nbytes
+    cap = tiledb_create_write_options.remote_cap_nbytes
     if arrow_table.nbytes > cap:
         n = len(arrow_table)
         if n < 2:
@@ -1116,8 +1116,8 @@ def _write_arrow_table(
                 "single table row nbytes {arrow_table.nbytes} exceeds cap nbytes {cap}"
             )
         m = n // 2
-        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table[:m], handle, tiledb_create_options)
-        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table[m:], handle, tiledb_create_options)
+        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table[:m], handle, tiledb_create_write_options)
+        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table[m:], handle, tiledb_create_write_options)
     else:
         logging.log_io(
             None,
@@ -1234,10 +1234,12 @@ def _write_dataframe_impl(
         add_metadata(soma_df, additional_metadata)
         return soma_df
 
-    tiledb_create_options = TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(platform_config)
+    tiledb_create_write_options = TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+        platform_config
+    )
 
     if arrow_table:
-        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table, soma_df, tiledb_create_options)
+        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table, soma_df, tiledb_create_write_options)
 
     # Save the original index name for outgest. We use JSON for elegant indication of index name
     # being None (in Python anyway).
@@ -1334,7 +1336,7 @@ def _create_from_matrix(
         _write_matrix_to_denseNDArray(
             soma_ndarray,
             matrix,
-            tiledb_create_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+            tiledb_create_write_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
                 platform_config
             ),
             ingestion_params=ingestion_params,
@@ -1344,7 +1346,7 @@ def _create_from_matrix(
         _write_matrix_to_sparseNDArray(
             soma_ndarray,
             matrix,
-            tiledb_create_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+            tiledb_create_write_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
                 platform_config
             ),
             ingestion_params=ingestion_params,
@@ -1513,7 +1515,9 @@ def _update_dataframe(
     add_keys = new_keys.difference(old_keys)
     common_keys = old_keys.intersection(new_keys)
 
-    tiledb_create_options = TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(platform_config)
+    tiledb_create_write_options = TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+        platform_config
+    )
 
     msgs = []
     for key in common_keys:
@@ -1550,7 +1554,9 @@ def _update_dataframe(
                 )
             )
 
-        filters = tiledb_create_options.attr_filters_tiledb(add_key, ["ZstdFilter"])
+        filters = tiledb_create_write_options.attr_filters_tiledb(
+            add_key, ["ZstdFilter"]
+        )
 
         # An update can create (or drop) columns, or mutate existing ones.  A
         # brand-new column might have nulls in it -- or it might not.  And a
@@ -1656,7 +1662,7 @@ def update_matrix(
         _write_matrix_to_denseNDArray(
             soma_ndarray,
             new_data,
-            tiledb_create_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+            tiledb_create_write_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
                 platform_config
             ),
             ingestion_params=ingestion_params,
@@ -1666,7 +1672,7 @@ def update_matrix(
         _write_matrix_to_sparseNDArray(
             soma_ndarray,
             new_data,
-            tiledb_create_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+            tiledb_create_write_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
                 platform_config
             ),
             ingestion_params=ingestion_params,
@@ -1781,7 +1787,7 @@ def add_matrix_to_collection(
 def _write_matrix_to_denseNDArray(
     soma_ndarray: DenseNDArray,
     matrix: Union[Matrix, h5py.Dataset],
-    tiledb_create_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
+    tiledb_create_write_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
     ingestion_params: IngestionParams,
     additional_metadata: AdditionalMetadata = None,
 ) -> None:
@@ -1815,7 +1821,7 @@ def _write_matrix_to_denseNDArray(
             return
 
     # Write all at once?
-    if not tiledb_create_options.write_X_chunked:
+    if not tiledb_create_write_options.write_X_chunked:
         if not isinstance(matrix, np.ndarray):
             matrix = matrix.toarray()
         soma_ndarray.write((slice(None),), pa.Tensor.from_numpy(matrix))
@@ -1838,7 +1844,9 @@ def _write_matrix_to_denseNDArray(
     #   it controls how much is read into client RAM from the backing store on each chunk.
     # * The remote_cap_nbytes is an older parameter.
     # * Compute chunk sizes for both and take the minimum.
-    chunk_size_using_nnz = int(math.ceil(tiledb_create_options.goal_chunk_nnz / ncol))
+    chunk_size_using_nnz = int(
+        math.ceil(tiledb_create_write_options.goal_chunk_nnz / ncol)
+    )
 
     try:
         # not scipy csr/csc
@@ -1849,7 +1857,7 @@ def _write_matrix_to_denseNDArray(
 
     total_nbytes = matrix.size * itemsize
     nbytes_num_chunks = math.ceil(
-        total_nbytes / tiledb_create_options.remote_cap_nbytes
+        total_nbytes / tiledb_create_write_options.remote_cap_nbytes
     )
     nbytes_num_chunks = min(1, nbytes_num_chunks)
     chunk_size_using_nbytes = math.floor(nrow / nbytes_num_chunks)
@@ -2174,7 +2182,7 @@ def _find_sparse_chunk_size_backed(
 def _write_matrix_to_sparseNDArray(
     soma_ndarray: SparseNDArray,
     matrix: Matrix,
-    tiledb_create_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
+    tiledb_create_write_options: TileDBCreateOptions,
     ingestion_params: IngestionParams,
     additional_metadata: AdditionalMetadata,
     axis_0_mapping: AxisIDMapping,
@@ -2234,7 +2242,7 @@ def _coo_to_table(
     add_metadata(soma_ndarray, additional_metadata)
 
     # Write all at once?
-    if not tiledb_create_options.write_X_chunked:
+    if not tiledb_create_write_options.write_X_chunked:
         soma_ndarray.write(
             _coo_to_table(sp.coo_matrix(matrix), axis_0_mapping, axis_1_mapping)
         )
@@ -2253,7 +2261,7 @@ def _coo_to_table(
     dim_max_size = matrix.shape[stride_axis]
 
     eta_tracker = eta.Tracker()
-    goal_chunk_nnz = tiledb_create_options.goal_chunk_nnz
+    goal_chunk_nnz = tiledb_create_write_options.goal_chunk_nnz
     mean_nnz = _find_mean_nnz(matrix, stride_axis)
 
     coords = [slice(None), slice(None)]
@@ -2321,11 +2329,11 @@ def _coo_to_table(
         # send them off, with simplified logic.
         num_tries = 0
         max_tries = 20
-        while chunk_coo.nnz > tiledb_create_options.goal_chunk_nnz:
+        while chunk_coo.nnz > tiledb_create_write_options.goal_chunk_nnz:
             num_tries += 1
             # The logger we use doesn't have a TRACE level. If it did, we'd use it here.
             # logging.logger.trace(
-            #    f"Adapt: {num_tries}/{max_tries} {chunk_coo.nnz}/{tiledb_create_options.goal_chunk_nnz}"
+            #    f"Adapt: {num_tries}/{max_tries} {chunk_coo.nnz}/{tiledb_create_write_options.goal_chunk_nnz}"
             # )
             if num_tries > max_tries:
                 raise SOMAError(
@@ -2333,7 +2341,7 @@ def _coo_to_table(
                     "This may be reduced in TileDBCreateOptions."
                 )
 
-            ratio = chunk_coo.nnz / tiledb_create_options.goal_chunk_nnz
+            ratio = chunk_coo.nnz / tiledb_create_write_options.goal_chunk_nnz
             chunk_size = int(math.floor(0.9 * (i2 - i) / ratio))
             if chunk_size < 1:
                 raise SOMAError(
@@ -2363,7 +2371,7 @@ def _coo_to_table(
                         dim_max_size,
                         chunk_percent,
                         chunk_coo.nnz,
-                        tiledb_create_options.goal_chunk_nnz,
+                        tiledb_create_write_options.goal_chunk_nnz,
                     ),
                 )
                 i = i2
@@ -2379,14 +2387,14 @@ def _coo_to_table(
                 dim_max_size,
                 chunk_percent,
                 chunk_coo.nnz,
-                tiledb_create_options.goal_chunk_nnz,
+                tiledb_create_write_options.goal_chunk_nnz,
             ),
         )
 
         arrow_table = _coo_to_table(
             chunk_coo, axis_0_mapping, axis_1_mapping, stride_axis, i
         )
-        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table, soma_ndarray, tiledb_create_options)
+        _write_arrow_table(arrow_table, soma_ndarray, tiledb_create_write_options)
 
         t2 = time.time()
         chunk_seconds = t2 - t1
@@ -2808,7 +2816,7 @@ def _ingest_uns_ndarray(
         _write_matrix_to_denseNDArray(
             soma_arr,
             value,
-            tiledb_create_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
+            tiledb_create_write_options=TileDBCreateOptions.from_platform_config(
                 platform_config
             ),
             ingestion_params=ingestion_params,
diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/__init__.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/__init__.py
index c3292f82a5..7c60d27130 100644
--- a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/__init__.py
+++ b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from ._soma_tiledb_context import SOMATileDBContext
-from ._tiledb_create_options import TileDBCreateOptions, TileDBWriteOptions
+from ._tiledb_create_write_options import TileDBCreateOptions, TileDBWriteOptions
 
 __all__ = [
     "SOMATileDBContext",
diff --git a/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/_tiledb_create_options.py b/apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/_tiledb_create_write_options.py
similarity index 100%
rename from apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/_tiledb_create_options.py
rename to apis/python/src/tiledbsoma/options/_tiledb_create_write_options.py
diff --git a/apis/python/tests/test_io.py b/apis/python/tests/test_io.py
index 100c619163..efd8497937 100644
--- a/apis/python/tests/test_io.py
+++ b/apis/python/tests/test_io.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import tiledbsoma as soma
 import tiledbsoma.io as somaio
 from tiledbsoma import _factory
-from tiledbsoma.options._tiledb_create_options import TileDBCreateOptions
+from tiledbsoma.options._tiledb_create_write_options import TileDBCreateOptions
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
diff --git a/apis/python/tests/test_platform_config.py b/apis/python/tests/test_platform_config.py
index 5985ba05e3..a3c084d6ef 100644
--- a/apis/python/tests/test_platform_config.py
+++ b/apis/python/tests/test_platform_config.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import tiledbsoma
 import tiledbsoma.io
-import tiledbsoma.options._tiledb_create_options as tco
+import tiledbsoma.options._tiledb_create_write_options as tco
 from tiledbsoma._util import verify_obs_and_var_eq
 import tiledb