Glossary¶
Terms¶
These developer documents use some key terms that are useful to familiarize yourself with:
Term | Description |
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AIQ (AdaptiveIQ) | a custom analytics application built on top of BurstChain® |
Asset | a piece of data (stored in a block) |
Asset Permissioning / Sharing | an action that provides a user or group of users with permission to access or view an asset or group of assets |
Asset Transfer | an action that changes ownership of an asset from one data owner (or group of data owners) to another data owner (or group of data owners) |
Block | the smallest discrete unit of asset(s) on the platform. May contain one or more assets |
BurstChain® | BurstIQ’s proprietary blockchain-based Big Data platform, including data storage and management systems |
Chain | a series of blocks that all relate to each other (or build from each other). |
Client or Company | The entity that is developing an application or service on top of BurstChain® |
Client Data Space | the reserved, separate data space where data is not allowed to transition to any other data space; it is identified by a client name that is used throughout the BurstChain® API |
Collection | a group of data |
Consent Contract | a customizable smart contract that enables data owners to grant data access / permission to other users |
Data Owner | the user (or multiple users) that own an asset |
Dictionary | a set of definitions created by a data owner that allow BurstChain® to properly organize and understand the data, data types and data structures; a dictionary belongs to the client’s data space |
Flow | Flow or TQLFlow is a data pipeline that allows the user to designate TQL Clauses in various sequences for more advanced data query, mapping, transforms and more. |
Smart Contracts | TBD |
TQL | Tiny Query Language - allows for users familiar with SQL to begin queries into IQ and/or BurstChain® |
User | any person, company, application or other entity that accesses the platform |