Glossary

2PL

2-Phase Locking

ACID

Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability

AP

Analytical Processing

ARM

Advanced RISC Machine, a hardware architecture alternative to x86

CC

Concurrency Control

CPU

Central Processing Unit

DB

Database

DBA

Database Administrator

DBMS

Database Management System

DDL

Data Definition Language. Database Schema management language

DML

Data Modification Language

ETL

Extract, Transform, Load or Encounter Time Locking

FDW

Foreign Data Wrapper

GC

Garbage Collector

HA

High Availability

HTAP

Hybrid Transactional-Analytical Processing

IoT

Internet of Things

IM

In-Memory

IMDB

In-Memory Database

IR

Intermediate Representation of a source code, used in compilation and optimization

JIT

Just In Time

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation

KV

Key Value

LLVM

Low-Level Virtual Machine, refers to a compilation code or queries to IR

M2M

Machine-to-Machine

ML

Machine Learning

MM

Main Memory

MO

Memory Optimized

MOT

Memory Optimized Tables storage engine (SE), pronounced as /em/ /oh/ /tee/

MVCC

Multi-Version Concurrency Control

NUMA

Non-Uniform Memory Access

OCC

Optimistic Concurrency Control

OLTP

Online Transaction Processing

PG

PostgreSQL

RAW

Reads-After-Writes

RC

Return Code

RTO

Recovery Time Objective

SE

Storage Engine

SQL

Structured Query Language

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership

TP

Transactional Processing

TPC-C

An On-Line Transaction Processing Benchmark

Tpm-C

Transactions-per-minute-C. A performance metric for TPC-C benchmark that counts new-order transactions.

TVM

Tiny Virtual Machine

TSO

Time Sharing Option

UDT

User-Defined Type

WAL

Write Ahead Log

XLOG

A PostgreSQL implementation of transaction logging (WAL - described above)