Meanings
- uncountableA common language for data definition and data manipulation.
It, or one of its children, will become the intergalactic dataspeak: the standard way to interchange semistructured and structured data among computer systems.
2000, Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, Dan Suciu, Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML1 more example
1995, Jim Gray, 1995 Intergalactic dataspeak: SQL standard, Open SQL, ODBC, DRDA, Intergalactic dataspeak - Mcjones.org, pages www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Intergal.html So we said, "What we need is an intergalactic dataspeak." An Esperanto that would go on the wire, that would allow everybody to talk to everybody.
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