Glossary Terms

A

ACID Transactions Agentic AI Agentic Engineering Agentic RAG Agentic Reasoning AI Agent AI Agent Orchestration AI Agent Routing AI Databases AI Design Patterns AI Hallucination AI Ready Data AI Reasoning Engine AI Self-Evaluation Apache Flink Application Modernization Architecture of Answers Augmented Data Quality

C

Cache Augmented Generation (CAG) Cache Coherence Cache Invalidation Cache Miss Caching as a Service Chain of Thought Prompting Change Data Capture Cloud-Native Architecture Context Engineering Context Window Contextual AI Contextual SearchConstitutional AI Conversational Analytics Corrective RAG

D

Data Accessibility Data Analytics Data at Rest Data API Data as a Service Data Concurrency Data Consistency Data Democratization Data Exchange Data Flow Control Data Grid Data Federation Data High Availability Data Ingestion Data Integration Layer Data Latency Data Mesh Data Persistency Data Pipeline Data Product Data Self-Service Data Processing Data Scalability Data Streaming Data Tiering Database Integration Database Scaling Digital Integration as a Service Digital Thread Digital Twin Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) Directed-Acyclic-Graphs Distributed Cache Distributed Computing Distributed Transaction Distributed Events Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

E

Enterprise iPaaS eRAG Enterprise AI Agents Event Driven Architecture Event-Based Streaming Event Queues Explainable AI (XAI)

F

Foundational Model

G

Graph DB Graph QL Graph RAG

H

Hybrid RAG HyDe

I

In-Memory Database In-Memory Data Grid In-Memory Processing

J

Java Microservices

K

Kappa Architecture Knowledge Graph Kubernetes Architecture

L

Lambda Architecture Large Action Model LLM Evaluation LLM Hallucinations LLM Governance LLM Monitoring LLM Grounding LLM Guardrails LLM RAG Pattern LLM Reasoning LLM Temperature LLM Validation

M

Machine Learning Inference Mainframe Modernization Modular RAG Model Context Protocol (MCP)Memory-Augmented Neural Networks Microservices Architecture Multi-Agent RAG

N

Named Entity Recognition (NER) NLQ Natural Language Query (NLQ) Natural Language Analytics

O

Operational Data Hub Operational Data Store

Q

Query Understanding

R

RAG-as-a-Service RAG Pipelines Real Time AI Governance Real-Time Data Analytics Real-Time Data Processing Real-Time Data Integration Real-Time Data Stream Real-Time Operational Reporting Real-Time Streaming Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

S

Semantic Caching for LLMs Semantic Layer Semantic Reasoning Semantic Reranking Sentiment Analysis Sharding Space-Based Architecture Stream Data Integration Streaming ETL Streaming LLMs Supervised Fine Tuning

T

Text2SQL Time Series Database Table Augemented Generation Trustworthy AI

U

Unified Data Platform

V

Vector Database Vector Embeddings