Database transactionA database transaction symbolizes a unit of work, performed within a database management system (or similar system) against a database, that is treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions. A transaction generally represents any change in a database. Transactions in a database environment have two main purposes: To provide reliable units of work that allow correct recovery from failures and keep a database consistent even in cases of system failure.
Concurrency controlIn information technology and computer science, especially in the fields of computer programming, operating systems, multiprocessors, and databases, concurrency control ensures that correct results for concurrent operations are generated, while getting those results as quickly as possible. Computer systems, both software and hardware, consist of modules, or components. Each component is designed to operate correctly, i.e., to obey or to meet certain consistency rules.
Transactional memoryIn computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions to execute in an atomic way. It is a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing. Transactional memory systems provide high-level abstraction as an alternative to low-level thread synchronization. This abstraction allows for coordination between concurrent reads and writes of shared data in parallel systems.
Timestamp-based concurrency controlIn computer science, a timestamp-based concurrency control algorithm is a non-lock concurrency control method. It is used in some databases to safely handle transactions, using timestamps. Every timestamp value is unique and accurately represents an instant in time. A higher-valued timestamp occurs later in time than a lower-valued timestamp. A number of different ways have been used to generate timestamp Use the value of the system's clock at the start of a transaction as the timestamp.
Durabilité (informatique)Dans le contexte des bases de données, la durabilité est la propriété qui garantit qu'une transaction informatique qui a été confirmée survit de façon permanente, quels que soient les problèmes rencontrés par la base de données ou le système informatique où cette transaction a été traitée. Par exemple, dans un système de réservation de sièges d'avion, la durabilité assure qu'une réservation confirmée restera enregistrée quels que soient les problèmes rencontrés par l'ordinateur qui gère le système de réservation (panne d'électricité, écrasement de la tête sur le disque dur, etc.
Réseau sémantiqueUn réseau sémantique est un graphe marqué destiné à la représentation des connaissances, qui représente des relations sémantiques entre concepts. Le graphe est orienté ou non orienté. Ses sommets représentent les concepts, et les liens entre les sommets (nœuds) représentent les relations sémantiques, reliant les champs lexicaux. Un réseau sémantique peut être instancié, par exemple,dans une base de données orientée graphes ou un schéma conceptuel. Les réseaux sémantiques normalisés sont exprimés sous forme de triplets RDF.
Program analysisIn computer science, program analysis is the process of automatically analyzing the behavior of computer programs regarding a property such as correctness, robustness, safety and liveness. Program analysis focuses on two major areas: program optimization and program correctness. The first focuses on improving the program’s performance while reducing the resource usage while the latter focuses on ensuring that the program does what it is supposed to do.
Semantic integrationSemantic integration is the process of interrelating information from diverse sources, for example calendars and to do lists, email archives, presence information (physical, psychological, and social), documents of all sorts, contacts (including social graphs), search results, and advertising and marketing relevance derived from them. In this regard, semantics focuses on the organization of and action upon information by acting as an intermediary between heterogeneous data sources, which may conflict not only by structure but also context or value.
Semantic technologyThe ultimate goal of semantic technology is to help machines understand data. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, well-known technologies are RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). These technologies formally represent the meaning involved in information. For example, ontology can describe concepts, relationships between things, and categories of things. These embedded semantics with the data offer significant advantages such as reasoning over data and dealing with heterogeneous data sources.
Tolérance aux pannesvignette|Fichier GIF animé de 8 algorithmes ECT dans un réseau 802.1aq. La source est surlignée en violet, la destination en jaune. Les lignes violettes sont des chemins entre la source et la destination et l'épaisseur indique combien de chemins traversent un lien donné. La tolérance aux pannes (ou « insensibilité aux pannes ») désigne une méthode de conception permettant à un système de continuer à fonctionner, éventuellement de manière réduite (on dit aussi en « mode dégradé »), au lieu de tomber complètement en panne, lorsque l'un de ses composants ne fonctionne plus correctement.
