Oracle Database List of Acronyms

Here is a list of acronyms, and their expanded names:

3NF: third normal form
ACE: access control entry
ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability
ACL: access control list
ADDM: Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor
ADR: Automatic Diagnostic Repository
ASM: Automatic Storage Management
AWR: Automatic Workload Repository
AWT: asynchronous writethrough
B2B: Business-to-Business
B2C: Business-to-Consumer
BGP: basic graph pattern
BLOB: Binary Large Object
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining
CCA: Control Center Agent
CDATA: character data
CDS: Cell Directory Services
CFS: Cluster File System
CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CLOB: Character Large Object
COM: component object model
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker API
CORE: Common Oracle Runtime Environment
CRL: certificate revocation list
CRSD: Cluster Ready Services Daemon
CSS: Cluster Synchronization Services
CT: Code Template
CVU: Cluster Verification Utility
CWM: Common Warehouse Metadata
DAD: Database Access Descriptor
DAS: Direct Attached Storage
DBA: database administrator
DBPITR: database point-in-time recovery
DCE: Distributed Computing Environment
DCOM: distributed component object model
DDL LCR: DDL logical change record
DES: Data Encryption Standard
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DICOM: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DIT: directory information tree
DLL: dynamic-link library
DN: distinguished name
DNS: Domain Name System
DOM: Document Object Model
DTD: Document Type Definition
DTP: Distributed Transaction Processing
EJB: Enterprise JavaBean
EMCA: Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant
ETL: extraction, transformation, and loading
EVM: Event Manager
EVMD: Event Manager Daemon
FAN: Fast Application Notification
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard
GAC: Global Assembly Cache
GCS: Global Cache Service
GDS: Global Directory Service
GES: Global Enqueue Service
GIS: geographic information system
GNS: Grid Naming Service
GNSD: Oracle Grid Naming Service Daemon
GPFS: General Parallel File System
GSD: Global Services Daemon
GV$: global dynamic performance views
HACMP: High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing
HBA: host bus adapter
IDE: Integrated Development Environment
IIOP: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
IPC: Interprocess Communication
J2EE: Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
JAXB: Java Architecture for XML Binding
JAXP: Java API for XML Processing
JDBC: Java Database Connectivity
JDK: Java Developer's Kit
JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface
JRE: Java Runtime Environment
JSP: JavaServer Pages
JSR: Java Specification Request
JVM: Java Virtual Machine
KDC: Key Distribution Center
KWIC: Key Word in Context
LCR: logical change record
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDIF: LDAP Data Interchange Format
LGWR: log writer
LMD: Global Enqueue Service Daemon
LMON: Global Enqueue Service Monitor
LOB: large object
LUN: Logical Unit Number
LVM: Logical Volume Manager
MAPI: messaging application programming interface
MBR: Master Boot Record
MS DTC: Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
MTTR: mean time to recover
NAS: Network Attached Storage
NCLOB: National Character Large Object
NFS: Network File System
NI: Network Interface
NIC: Network Interface Card
NIS: Network Information Service
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
NPI: Network Program Interface
NS: Network Session
NTP: Network Time Protocol
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
OCFS: Oracle Cluster File System
OCI: Oracle Call Interface
OCR: Oracle Cluster Registry
OCT: Ordered Collection in Tables
ODBC: Open Database Connectivity
ODBC INI: ODBC initialization file
ODP.NET: Oracle Data Provider for .NET
OFA: optimal flexible architecture
OHASD: Oracle High Availability Services Daemon
OIFCFG: Oracle Interface Configuration Tool
OLM: Object Link Manager
OLTP: online transaction processing
OMF: Oracle Managed Files
ONS: Oracle Notification Services
OO4O: Oracle Objects for OLE
OPI: Oracle Program Interface
ORB: Object Request Broker
OSI: Open Systems Interconnection
OUI: Oracle Universal Installer
PCDATA: Parsed Character Data
PGA: program global area
PKI: public key infrastructure
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RDBMS: Relational Database Management System
RDN: relative distinguished name
RM: resource manager
RMAN: Recovery Manager
ROI: return on investment
RPO: recovery point objective
RTO: recovery time objective
SAN: Storage Area Network
SAX: Simple API for XML
SCAN: Single Client Access Name
SCN: system change number
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
SDU: session data unit
SGA: System Global Area
SGML: Structured Generalized Markup Language
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm
SID: Oracle System Identifier
SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organization System
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SOP: service object pair
SQL: Structured Query Language
SRVCTL: Server Control
SSH: Secure Shell
SSI: Server-Side Include
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
SSO: single sign-on
STS: SQL tuning set
SWT: synchronous writethrough
TAF: Transparent Application Failover
TCO: total cost of ownership
TLS: Transport Layer Security
TNS: Transparent Network Substrate
TSPITR: tablespace point-in-time recovery
TTC: Two-Task Common
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
UGA: user global area
UID: unique identifier
UIX: User Interface XML
UNC: Universal Naming Convention
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
UTC: coordinated universal time
VSS: Volume Shadow Copy Service
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
WG: Working Group
WSDL: Web Services Description Language
XDK: Oracle XML Developer's Kit
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
XSL: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSLFO: eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Object
XSLT: eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation
XSU: XML SQL Utility
XVM: XSLT Virtual Machine