Glossary

Connected data offers a way to map relationships between data sources to provide context and increase the value of existing data to a business. Data siloes offer little value to a business. By connecting different data points about a subject,…

A machine learning (ML) engineer is a data science team member who creates or refines programs and algorithms that enable machines to automatically learn from data to identify patterns and make predictions. What Does a ML Engineer Do? The role…

A data analytics platform provides comprehensive capabilities to connect, ingest, organize, visualize, and analyze data at scale. The data platform must support multiple on-premises instances and multiple cloud providers so analytics can run anywhere the data resides. The platform must…

Streaming ingestion involves real-time analytics that provides insights from data-in-motion needs to ingest data continuously from a subscribed message queue. Since high message volumes can overwhelm applications consuming data, micro-batches can collect messages and provide them to the consuming application…

A customer data platform (CDP) provides a centralized HUB for customer information. The CDP ingests data from multiple disparate sources, aggregating and organizing it. The CDP acts as a system of record for multiple business functions, including sales and marketing,…

Kubernetes (also known as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for scheduling and automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Originally designed by Google, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) now maintains this project.    According to CNCF, Kubernetes…

Data Science is a discipline that focuses on the strategies and techniques used to gain meaningful insights from large volumes of data. What Is a Data Scientist? The best way to define data science is to consider what data science…

Cloud analytics is a term used to describe cloud-based computing to uncover insight from stored data in private or public clouds. Cloud computing is the fastest-growing segment of the database market, and modern data repositories are almost exclusively cloud-based. Cloud-computing…

A connected cloud provides multiple functions under a single management umbrella. In a data platform context, these services would include data analysis, storage and data integration. The Actian Data Platform offers these services. In a multi-cloud enterprise, it is essential…

The term cloud elasticity refers to the ability of a cloud service to grow and shrink resources to match the demand from an application workload. The dynamic elements of an elastic cloud are compute CPUs, memory and storage. The provision…

Streaming data is the process by which a continuous flow of data from single or multiple sources is processed in near real-time. Depending on the time criticality or server resource constraints, data streams can be processed after small intervals as…

Data storage can reside in a data center on-premises or a data center hosted by a cloud service provider or cloud vendor and accessed over a network. It is offered as a subscription model, typically charged monthly by terabytes consumed…

Multi-cloud refers to a business that uses cloud computing resources on multiple public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and private clouds. Almost all large enterprises use multiple public and hybrid cloud providers today. Why Multi-Cloud? Below are some…

The term Big Data describes data sets that are too large or complex to be processed by traditional data processing methods. It is also used to describe data sets that need to be processed in their entirety to gain business…

The term “data in motion” refers to data that is actively being processed or transformed or moving from a source device, sensor, storage device, or data communications node to a target location. The target location can be an intermediate node…

When data is not being transmitted between locations, it is considered to be at rest. In its rawest form, data is stored in digital form (represented as binary 0 and 1 values) on storage media, which can reside on-premise, on…