SDXI
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
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
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...
LPDDR
LPDDR - Low Power Double Data Rate refers to low power DRAM for mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets. It's aimed at minimizing power consumption and features...
TRIE
TRIE - four letters taken from the word reTRIEval. A TRIE is a digital tree structure also known as a Prefix or Radix tree. This is an extremely fast...
Iceberg
Iceberg - Apache Iceberg format tables, are used in big data and enable SQL querying. Query engines such as Spark, Trino, Flink, Presto, Hive, Impala, StarRocks, and others can...
Hudi
Hudi - Apache Hudi (Hadoop Upserts Deletes and Incrementals)is an open-source framework for building transactional data lakes with processes for ingesting, managing, and querying large volumes of data. Uber...
Resilvering
Resilvering - In the ZFS file system the process of moving data from one disk drive device in a ZFS storage pool (RAIDz poo)l to another device is known...
SCSI
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface pronounced as 'Scuzzee.' It is an interconnect standard for PCs and servers linking to peripheral devices, such as disk drives and SSDs, and...
UFS
UFS - Universal Flash Storage is a drive specification for smart phones, digital cameras and similar devices. It's the size of a (very) large fingernail and replaces an...