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A database catalog of a database instance consists of metadata in which definitions of database objects such as base tables, views (virtual tables), synonyms, value ranges, indexes, users, and user groups are stored. [1] [2] It is an architecture product that documents the database's content and data quality. [3]
The terms data dictionary and data repository indicate a more general software utility than a catalogue. A catalogue is closely coupled with the DBMS software. It provides the information stored in it to the user and the DBA, but it is mainly accessed by the various software modules of the DBMS itself, such as DDL and DML compilers, the query optimiser, the transaction processor, report ...
MOF – Meta Object Facility, an OMG metamodeling and metadata repository standard XMI – XML Metadata Interchange, an OMG metadata interchange standard CWM models enable users to trace the lineage of data – CWM provides objects that describe where the data came from and when and how the data was created.
A good example of metadata is the cataloging system found in libraries, which records for example the author, title, subject, and location on the shelf of a resource. Another is software system knowledge extraction of software objects such as data flows, control flows, call maps, architectures, business rules, business terms, and database schemas.
The initial RDF design, intended to "build a vendor-neutral and operating system- independent system of metadata", [2] derived from the W3C's Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS), an early web content labelling system, [3] but the project was also shaped by ideas from Dublin Core, and from the Meta Content Framework (MCF), [2] which ...
Presto (including PrestoDB, and PrestoSQL which was re-branded to Trino) is a distributed query engine for big data using the SQL query language. Its architecture allows users to query data sources such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, AWS S3, Alluxio, MySQL, MongoDB and Teradata, [1] and allows use of multiple data sources within a query.
Microdata is a WHATWG HTML specification used to nest metadata within existing content on web pages. [1] Search engines, web crawlers, and browsers can extract and process Microdata from a web page and use it to provide a richer browsing experience for users.
The blog may have a sidebar listing all the tags in use on that blog, with each tag leading to an index page. To reclassify a post, an author edits its list of tags. All connections between posts are automatically tracked and updated by the blog software; there is no need to relocate the page within a complex hierarchy of categories.