ACID - Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability
BLOB - Binary Large Object
DBMS - Database Management System
DPN - Data Processing Node
DSS - Decision Support System
IPN - Interface Processing Node
MPP - Massively Parallel Processing
OLAP - Online Analytical Processing
OLTP - Online Transaction Processing
RAS - Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
RDBMS - Relational Database Management System
SMP - Symmetric Multi-Processing
SQL - Structured Query Language
THOR - The Hitachi Object Relational Database System
VLDB - Very Large Database