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* Creating new glossary page with initial terms and phrases that may be useful --------- Co-authored-by: GCHQDeveloper314 <[email protected]>
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# Glossary | ||
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| Term | Description | | ||
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| Node | A node is an entity within a graph | | ||
| Edge | An edge is a connection between two nodes | | ||
| Properties | A property is a key/value pair that stores data on both edges and entities | | ||
| Python | A programming language that is used to build applications. Gaffer uses python to interact with the API | | ||
| Java | A object oriented programming language used to build software. Gaffer is primarily built in Java | | ||
| Database | A database is a collection of organised structured information or data typically stored in a computer system | | ||
| API | Application Programming Interface. An API is for one or more services / systems to communicate with each other | | ||
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation is a text based format for representing structure data based on JavaScript object syntax| | ||
| Element | The word is used to describe the combination of both an edge and entity | | ||
| Entity | An entity represents a point in a graph e.g. a person | | ||
| Stores | A Gaffer store represents the backing database responsbile for storing or facilitating access to a graph | | ||
| Operations | An operation is an instruction / function that you send to the API to manipulate and query a graph | | ||
| Vertex | A vertex refers to the field in an entity that describes its type | |