Glossary
Use this table to reference frequently used acronyms and terms with the Ocient® System or the Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse™.
| Name | Definition |
|---|---|
| AA | Auto Acquire |
| AdTech | Advertising technology |
| ANTLR | ANother Tool for Language Recognition |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ASIO | Async I/O library |
| AST | Abstract Syntax Tree |
| CFL | Continuous File Loading |
| CmdComp | Command Compiler |
| CTAS | CREATE TABLE AS SELECT SQL statement |
| CTE | Common Table Expression |
| DCL | Data Control Language |
| DDL | Data Definition Language |
| DML | Data Manipulation Language |
| DR | Disaster Recovery |
| ELT | Extract, Load, and Transform |
| ETL | Extract, Transform, and Load |
| FinTech | Financial technology |
| GDC | Global Dictionary Compression |
| GDS | Global Data Storage |
| GIS | Geospatial Information System |
| HA | High Availability |
| IAS | INSERT INTO SELECT SQL statement |
| IDA | Information Dispersal Algorithm |
| LCK | Local Cluster Key |
| LTS | Foundation Node |
| NUMA | Non-Uniform Memory Architecture |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express |
| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing |
| OSC | Ocient Stream Client |
| OSN | Ownership Sequence Number |
| TKT | TimeKey® Time |
| TTQ | Time to Queryability |
| UDT | User-defined Transform |
| UIO | User mode I/O |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| WLM | Workload Management |