Storage: Classified
Data lakes are usually made up of this type of storage.
What is object storage?
This type of storage device also provides services to users and can host applications.
What is a server?
A computer language used for managing data within a database.
What is SQL (Structured Query Language)?
This type of storage breaks apart data into discrete segmented chunks, each with their own unique address.
What is block storage?
This appliance has been optimized for storage needs, and is most often used for temporary housing of data for transfer.
What is a storage/transfer/standalone appliance?
This term refers to a collection of data within a database, but serving a meal on it would be ill advised.
What is a table?
A collection of information that is organized to be easily managed, accessed and updated.
What is a database?
A single device optimized for storage that is attached to a network to provide data access to all servers and users from one central disk capacity (e.g. Synology).
What is a NAS (Network Attached Storage)?
A collection of tables within a database.
What is a dataset?
A type of database that has high consistency. Associated with ACID transactions.
What is a relational database?
A term used to describe a grouping of hard drives. Some variations include 0, 1, 1+0, 5, and 6.
What is RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)?
These two words define how a table is structured, making the classic grid pattern we associate with databases.
What are rows and columns?
A type of database that is eventually consistent. Useful for large-scale database needs that do not require ACID transactions.
What is a non-relational (NoSQL) database?
A type of storage that is made of several appliances networked together, often in separate physical locations, to provide enhanced accessibility to servers and users.
What is a SAN (Storage Area Network)?
This term refers to how tables are structured within a database in formal language. Analogous to the database's "blueprint".
What is a schema?