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title: Glossary
slug: 7LYI-glossary
description: Glossary of acronyms and terms used in the Ocient System or the Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse.
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createdAt: Mon Aug 11 2025 15:04:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
updatedAt: Mon Mar 30 2026 18:52:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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Use this table to reference frequently used acronyms and terms with the Ocient® System or the Ocient Data Intelligence Platform™.

| **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                   |

