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Scalability - The ability of a program, process, service, or application to perform its agreed function when the workload or scope changes.
[Category=Data Governance ]
Source: The Data Governance Institute, 24 December 2009 13:06:15, http://www.datagovernance.com/glossary-governance/
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Scale, Scalable, and Scalability - Having to do with the ability of a computer system or a database to operate efficiently with larger quantities of data.
Scalability is often discussed in situations when multiple processors are joined together. The system scales well (or is scalable) if doubling the number of processors also doubles the speed at which the system performs its tasks. The extra work involved in coordinating larger systems usually prevents them from being fully scalable - so that going from one to two processors would increase the total speed by less than a factor of two.
[Category=Data Warehousing ]
Source: SDG Computing Inc., 12 May 2010 11:24:40, SDG Computing, now offline
Scalability - The ability to scale to support larger or smaller volumes of data and more or less users. The ability to increase or decrease size or capability in cost-effective increments with minimal impact on the unit cost of business and the procurement of additional services.
[Category=Information Management ]
Source: Information-Management.com, 06 July 2010 12:51:48, http://www.information-management.com/glossary/m.html
Scalability - (1) The ability to scale to support larger or smaller volumes of data and more or less users. The ability to increase or decrease size or capability in cost-effective increments with minimal impact on the unit cost of business and the procurement of additional services. (2) The ability of a system to accommodate increases in demand by upgrading and/or expanding existing components, as opposed to meeting those increased demands by implementing a new system.
[Category=Data Warehousing ]
Source: Sun.com, 11 August 2010 08:23:39, http://www.sun.com/third-party/dw/brochures/67198.Acrobat.pdf
Scalability - The ability to scale to support larger or smaller volumes of data and more or less users. The ability to increase or decrease size or capability in cost-effective increments with minimal impact on the unit cost of business and the procurement of additional services.
[Category=Data Management ]
Source: DataMentors, 27 August 2010 09:12:02, http://www.datamentors.com/News-and-Resources/Glossary.html
Scalability - The ability to increase volumes of data and numbers of users to the data warehouse solution. This is a critical capability for the data warehouse architecture and technical architecture.
[Category=Data Warehousing ]
Source: Aexis Business Intelligence, 24 December 2010 08:54:31, http://www.aexis.eu/DataWarehouse-Glossary/
scalability - The ability to change the component configuration of a system to fit desired application contexts.
[Category=Geospatial ]
Source: Open Geospatial Consortium, 04 July 2011 09:04:25, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary
scalability - The ability of a system or process to maintain acceptable performance levels as workload or scope increases.
[Category=Big Data ]
Source: DataInformed, 09 November 2013 09:14:39, http://data-informed.com/glossary-of-big-data-terms/
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