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dataspeak en · NOUN

Etymology

From data + -speak.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A common language for data definition and data manipulation.
    • 1995, Jim Gray, 1995 Intergalactic dataspeak: SQL standard, Open SQL, ODBC, DRDA, Intergalactic dataspeak - Mcjones.org, pages www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Intergal.html So we said, "What we need is an intergalactic dataspeak." An Esperanto that would go on the wire, that would allow everybody to talk to everybody.
    • It, or one of its children, will become the intergalactic dataspeak: the standard way to interchange semistructured and structured data among computer systems. 2000, Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, Dan Suciu, Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML: