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The Panoply Glossary

Plain-English definitions for the data stack and the AI systems built on top of it. Every entry opens with a quick answer, then goes deeper if you want to stay. We add terms as the directory grows.

Definitions

  • Change Data Capture
  • Context Window
  • Data Catalog
  • Data Lake
  • Data Lakehouse
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Observability
  • Data Orchestration
  • Data Pipeline
  • Data Warehouse
  • ELT
  • ETL
  • Embedding
  • Hallucination
  • RAG
  • Reverse ETL
  • Semantic Layer
  • Token
  • Vector
  • Vector Database
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