Glossary
- Apache Avro
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Apache Avro is an open source project that provides data serialization and data exchange services for the Apache Kafka and Apache Hadoop ecosystems. It has a serialization service programs can use to serialize the data into files or messages efficiently. It relies on a schema-based system (repository). In Avro the schema is always provided with the data. It stores the data definition in JSON. Apache Avro currently works well within the Hadoop ecosystem (including Apache Kafka).
- Apache Thrift
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Apache Thrift was developed at Facebook in 2007 and is an open source project. It uses a wide ranges of languages and offers a full client/server stack many projects can directly work with. It also uses an IDL (interface definition language) for describing the data types, which is quite similar to JSON and easily readable by humans.
- Access tokens
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Rather than using a username and password, an access token is used to represent the identity of the user or user’s groups. It can contain additional attributes and abstracts that describe the context in which the token can be used or the time window in which the token is valid.
- Accuracy
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The degree to which the data reflect the truth or reality. A spelling mistake is a good example of inaccurate data.
- ACID
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ACID stands for atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability.
Atomicity ensures that a transaction is either fully completed, or is not begun at all. Consistency enforces that the system is in a valid state at the ...