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A category used for the Blocks & Files Glossary document.

e.MMC

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e.MMC - Embedded MultiMediaCard is a small postage stamp-sized or even smaller card format for NAND, a controller and an interface; a mini-SSD delivered in an industry-standard Ball Grid...

Data Mesh

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Data Mesh - A data mesh is a way of using a data lakehouse and data lake. When initiated, these two concepts typically have a centralized data team handling...

Lakehouse

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Lakehouse - a data lakehouse aims to combine the attributes of a data warehouse and data lake and it is being used for both business intelligence, like a data...

Data Lake

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Data Lake - A data lake combines a large amount of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Reading the data generally means filtering it through a structure defined at read...

Data Warehouse

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Data Warehouse - Real-time, current records of structured data are stored in a database. A data warehouse, such as Teradata, introduced in the late 1970s, stores older records in...

SerDes

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SerDes - Serializer Deserializer integrated circuit device which interconnects single line parallel and serial network links. The Serializer or transmitter converts parallel data to a serial stream, while the...

CD

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CD - Compact Disk. This is an optical disc format developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. The first CD was manufactured in 1982....

WORM

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WORM - Write Once Read Many - refers to storage media which can only be written to once. This makes it suitable for archives and reference information which cannot...

UCIe

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UCIe - Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express. This is an open semiconductor-level specification for a die-to-die interconnect and serial bus between chiplets; small chips. it is a way to avoid...

SDXI

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SDXI - Smart Data Accelerator Interface. This is an SNIA standard for a memory-to-memory data mover and acceleration interface. The SNIA says it's extensible, forward-compatible and independent of I/O...

Write Amplification

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Write Amplification - an SSD has its cells organized within blocks. Blocks are sub-divided into 4KB to 16KB pages, perhaps 128, 256 or even more of them depending upon...

GFS

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GFS- Global FileSystem. AWS says a global file system (GFS) presents a single global namespace to multiple locations. This means that a client mounting the file system at any...