Flashcards: Data management

A distributed database is a database in which storage devices are not all attached to a common processing unit such as the CPU, and which is controlled by a distributed database management system (together sometimes called a distributed database system).

Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is an open-source, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package that is optimized for interactive applications.

A database schema (/ˈski.mə/ SKEE-mə) of a database system is its structure described in a formal language supported by the database management system (DBMS).

A data flow diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation of the "flow" of data through an information system, modelling its process aspects.

In database systems, isolation determines how transaction integrity is visible to other users and systems.

In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for reporting and data analysis, and is considered a core component of business intelligence.

Online complex processing (OLCP) is a class of realtime data processing involving complex queries, lengthy queries and/or simultaneous reads and writes to the same records.

A data dictionary, or metadata repository, as defined in the IBM Dictionary of Computing, is a "centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relationships to other data, origin, usage, and format.

SQL/PSM (SQL/Persistent Stored Modules) is an ISO standard mainly defining an extension of SQL with a procedural language for use in stored procedures.

Query languages are computer languages used to make queries in databases and information systems.

ADO.NET is a data access technology from the Microsoft .

In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) is a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful through semantic queries.

A tuple is a finite ordered list of elements.

Bright Computing was founded by Matthijs van Leeuwen in 2009, who spun the company out of ClusterVision, which he had co-founded with Alex Ninaber and Arijan Sauer.

BBC Information and Archives (sometimes known just as BBC Archives) are collections documenting the BBC's broadcasting history, including copies of television and radio broadcasts, internal documents, photographs, online content, sheet music, commercially available music, press cuttings and historic equipment.

The goal of content-oriented workflow models is to articulate workflow progression by the presence of content units (like data-records/objects/documents).

Vinelink.com (VINE) is a national website in the United States that allows victims of crime, and the general public, to track the movements of prisoners held by the various states and territories.

Cleo is an enterprise software company that provides electronic data interchange (EDI), and application-to-application (A2A), business-to-business (B2B), and big data integration services to organizations with managed file transfer needs.

Network transparency in its most general sense refers to the ability of a protocol to transmit data over the network in a manner which is transparent (invisible) to those using the applications that are using the protocol.

Small Data: the Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends is Martin Lindstrom's seventh book.

Personal (also referred to as Personal.com or Personal, Inc.) was a consumer Personal Data Service and identity management system for individuals to aggregate, manage and reuse their own data.

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a national facility for looking after and distributing data about the marine environment.

A clustered file system is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers.

AnalytiX Data Services is a software vendor that provides specialized data mapping and ETL conversion tools for data integration, data management, enterprise application integration and big data software and services.

The EU Open Data Portal is the single point of access to a wide range of data held by EU institutions, agencies and other bodies.

H-Store is an experimental database management system (DBMS) designed for online transaction processing applications that is being developed by a team at Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Yale University.

A nonlinear medium is one which is intended to be accessed in a nonlinear fashion.

Novell Storage Manager is a system software package released by Novell in 2004 that uses identity, policy and directory events to automate full lifecycle management of file storage for individual users and organizational groups.

Novell File Reporter (a.k.a. NFR) is software that allows network administrators to identify files stored on the network and generates reports regarding the size of individual files, file type, when files were last accessed, and where duplicates exist.

Scriptella is an open source ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and script execution tool written in Java.

Wiping, also known as junking, is a colloquial term for action taken by radio and television production and broadcasting companies, in which old audiotapes, videotapes, and telerecordings (kinescopes), are erased, reused, or destroyed.

A flat file database is a database which is stored on its host computer system as an ordinary unstructured file called a "flat file".

Content management (CM), is a set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium.

Data migration is the process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer systems.

Cambridge Semantics is a privately held company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with a West Coast office in San Diego, California.

The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an organization that shares designs of data center products among companies, including Facebook, Intel, Nokia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Seagate Technology, Dell, Rackspace, Ericsson, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Bank of America.

An operational system is a term used in data warehousing to refer to a system that is used to process the day-to-day transactions of an organization.

pureXML is the native XML storage feature in the IBM DB2 data server.

QuickPar is a computer program that creates parchives used as verification and recovery information for a file or group of files, and uses the recovery information, if available, to attempt to reconstruct the originals from the damaged files and the PAR volumes.

MaPS S.A. is a software editor founded in 2011 by Thierry Muller which is headquartered in Luxembourg.

GB & Smith is an independent agnostic software editor provides user friendly layer independent matrix-based console allowing instant visual review and management of all access rights on any supported platform.

Altitude3.Net is an electronic business development platform that allows to create web and mobile solutions along with interactive communication strategies.

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server is a business intelligence software product released in 2007 by Microsoft.

Cognos ReportNet (CRN) is a web-based software product for creating and managing ad hoc and custom-made reports.

The Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) is a biennial computer science conference focused on research into new techniques for data management.

CDS Global, Inc. is a multinational corporation based in Des Moines, Iowa, that provides business process outsourcing and customer data management to various industries worldwide.

SciDB is an array database designed for multidimensional data management and analytics common to scientific, geospatial, financial, and industrial applications.