Glossary
The Glossary defines terms that are common and specific to Vertica.
The Glossary defines terms that are common and specific to Vertica.
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- Access rank
- Administration host
- Administration tools
- Agent
- Anchor table
- Ancient history mark (AHM)
- Apportioned load
- Authentication service (AS)
- Bitstring
- Buddy projection
- Bulk loading
- C-store
- Cardinality
- Catalog
- Catalog path
- Cell
- Cluster
- Columnar tables
- Communal storage
- Connection node
- Control node
- Execution node
- Cooperative parse
- Correlated columns
- Critical node
- Current epoch
- Data collector
- Data path
- Database
- Database Designer
- Database superuser
- Default subcluster
- DELTAVAL (delta encoding)
- Depot
- Depot warming
- Derived column
- Dimension table
- Directed query
- Encoding
- Enterprise Mode
- Eon Mode
- Epoch
- Epoch map
- Executor node
- Expression
- External procedure
- Event series
- Flexible tables
- Flattening (subqueries and views)
- Full backup
- GENERAL pool
- Grant
- Grouped ROS
- Hash segmentation
- Historical data
- Historical query
- Immutable (invariant) functions
- Initiator node
- K-safety
- Last epoch
- Last good epoch (LGE)
- Live aggregate projection
- Locale
- Logical schema
- Location label
- Management Console
- MC SUPER administrator (superuser)
- MC-managed database
- Mergeout
- Meta-functions
- Metadata
- Mutual mode
- Node
- Non-repeatable read
- NUL
- NULL
- OID
- Parallel load
- Path (quality plan)
- Partitioning
- Phantom read
- Physical schema
- Physical schema design
- Primary column
- Primary node
- Primary subcluster
- Primary subscriber
- Projection
- Projection set
- Query cluster level
- Query optimizer
- Quorum
- Recovery
- Referential integrity
- Refresh (projections)
- Resegmentation
- Resource pool
- Resource manager
- Role
- Rollback
- ROS (Read optimized store)
- Savepoint
- Secondary subcluster
- Segmentation
- Server mode
- Session
- Shard
- Shard coverage
- Snapshot isolation
- Spread
- Sort-merge join
- Stable functions
- Statement
- Storage location
- Storage policy
- Strict
- Subcluster
- Superprojection
- Temp location
- Temp space
- Top-k projection
- Transaction
- Tuple mover (TM)
- UDx
- Up-to-date (projection)
- User-defined SQL function
- View
- Volatile functions
- vsql
- Window (analytic)
- Working data size
- Workload analyzer