2PC - Two-phase commit
ACID - Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
ADO - ActiveX Data Objects
aka - also known as
API - Application Programming Interface
BASE - Basically Available, Soft-State, Eventual Consistency
BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
BDB - Berkley Database
BLOB - Binary Large Object
CAP - Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance
CEO - Chief Executive Officer
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CS - Computer Science
CTA - Constrained tree application
CTO - Chief Technology Officer
DNS - Domain Name System
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
DBA - Database administrator
EAV store - Entity-Attribute-Value store
EC2 - (Amazon’s) Elastic Cloud Computing
EJB - Enterprise JavaBeans
Erlang OTP - Erlang Open Telecommunication Platform
E-R Model - Entity-Relationship Model
FIFO - First in, first out
GFS - Google File System
GPL - Gnu General Public Licence
HA - High Availability
HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System
HQL - Hypertable Query Language
IBM - International Business Machines
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force
IO - Input Output
IP - Internet Protocol
JDBC - Java Database Connectivity
JPA - Java Persistence API
JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
JSR - Java Specification Request
LINQ - Language Integrated Query
LRU - Least recently used
LSM(-Tree) - Log Structured Merge (Tree)
LZW - Lempel-Ziv-Welch
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MVCC - Multi-version concurrency control
(Java) NIO - (Java) New I/O
ODBC - Open Database Connectivity
OLAP - Online Analytical Processing
OLTP - Online Transaction Processing
OSCON - O’Reilly Open Source Convention
OSS - Open Source Software
PCRE - Perl-compatible Regular Expressions
PNUTS - (Yahoo!’s) Platform for Nimble Universal Table Storage
PODC - Principles of distributed computing (ACM symposium)
RAC - (Oracle) Real Application Cluster
RAM - Random Access Memory
RDF - Resource Description Framework
RDS - (Amazon) Relational Database Service
RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
REST - Representational State Transfer
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
RoR - Ruby on Rails
RYOW - Read your own writes (consistency model)
(Amazon) S3 - (Amazon) Simple Storage Service
SAN - Storage Area Network
SLA - Service Level Agreement
SMP - Symmetric multiprocessing
SPOF - Single point of failure
SSD - Solid State Disk
SQL - Structured Query Language
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TPC - Transaction Performance Processing Council
US - United States
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
XML - Extensible Markup Language