Glossary

The Synnada glossary explains key terms and concepts in data science, machine learning, AI, and analytics. Learn about popular ML algorithms, data engineering, statistics and more from our comprehensive tech glossary.

Graph Database

A graph database stores data in a graph structure with nodes, edges and properties to represent and query relationships between connected data entities.

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Key-value Store

A key-value store is a type of NoSQL database optimized for storing, retrieving and managing associative arrays of key-value pairs.

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Data Warehouse

A data warehouse is a centralized data management system designed to enable business reporting, analytics, and data insights.

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Message Broker

A message broker is a software system that facilitates communications between distributed applications and services by transferring messages in a reliable and scalable manner.

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Time-series Database (”TSDB”)

A time-series database (TSDB) is a database engineered and optimized for handling time-series data, where each data point contains a timestamp.

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Relational Database

A relational database is a type of database that stores and provides access to data according to relations between defined entities organized in tables.

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Data Processing Engine

A data processing engine is a distributed software system designed for high-performance data transformation, analytics, and machine learning workloads on large volumes of data.

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Data Lake

A data lake is a scalable data repository that stores vast amounts of raw data in its native formats until needed.

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Document Store

Document store database manages collections of JSON, XML, or other hierarchical document formats, providing querying and indexing on document contents.

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Spatial Database

A spatial database is a database optimized to store, query and manipulate geographic information system (GIS) data like location coordinates, topology, and associated attributes.

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RDF Store

An RDF store is a graph database optimized for storing and querying RDF triple data to represent facts and relationships.

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Data Orchestrator

A data orchestrator is a middleware tool that facilitates the automation of data flows between diverse systems such as data storage systems (e.g. databases), data processing engines (e.g. analytics engines) and APIs (e.g. SaaS platforms for data enrichment).

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Vector Database

A vector database is designed to efficiently store and query vector representations of data for applications like search, recommendations, and AI.

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Search Engine (Database)

A search engine database is designed to store, index, and query full text content to enable fast text search and retrieval.

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