Cloud Computing
The on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. [Wikipedia link]
Data Governance
Data Governance refers to all actions taken over the entire life-cycle of data to make sure that it is secure, accurate, private, available, and usable. [Wikipedia link]
Data Lake
A repository of data stored in its natural/raw format, usually object blobs or files. [Wikipedia link]
Data Warehouse
A central repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. [Wikipedia link]
Extract, transform, load (ETL)
A three-phase process where data is extracted, transformed (cleaned, sanitized, scrubbed) and written (loaded) to a data destination. [Wikipedia link]
Structured Query Language (SQL)
A standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases. [Wikipedia link]
Technical Debt
The implied cost of future reworking that will be needed when using an easy-but-limited solution instead of a better approach that would take more time. [Wikipedia link]
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). [Wikipedia link]