Glossary

• 2-phase commit

• Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability (ACID)

• Basically Available, Soft-state, Eventually-consistent (BASE)

• Cache Aside

• Consistency, Availability and Partition-tolerance (CAP) Theorem

• Consistent Hash

• Data grid

• Deadlock

• Distributed Hash Table (DHT)

• Externalizer

• Hot Rod

• In-memory data grid

• Isolation level

• JTA synchronization

• Livelock

• Memcached

• Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC)

• Near Cache

• Network partition

• NoSQL

• Optimistic locking

• Pessimistic locking

• Read Ahead

• READ COMMITTED

• Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)

• REPEATABLE READ

• Representational State Transfer (REST)

• Split brain

• Structured Query Language (SQL)

• Write-behind

• Write skew

• Write-through

• XA resource