diff --git a/api/glossary.md b/api/glossary.md index 9c9d2e4052..8f61b70e8e 100644 --- a/api/glossary.md +++ b/api/glossary.md @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ This glossary defines technical terms, concepts, and terminology used in $COMPAN **Adaptive query optimization**: dynamic query plan adjustment based on actual execution statistics and data distribution patterns, improving performance over time. + +**Agent**: a system that uses prompts, and other logic to act autonomously or semi-autonomously. + +**AI agent**: See [Agent](#agent). + **Aggregate (Continuous Aggregate)**: a materialized, precomputed summary of query results over time-series data, providing faster access to analytics. **Alerting**: the process of automatically notifying administrators when predefined conditions or thresholds are met in system monitoring. @@ -131,6 +136,8 @@ This glossary defines technical terms, concepts, and terminology used in $COMPAN **Decompress**: the process of restoring compressed data to its original, uncompressed state. +**Developer Agent**: a specialized [Agent](#agent) you use for coding, debugging and devops-as-code. + **Delta**: the difference between two values, commonly used in counter aggregations to calculate the change over time. **DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)**: a network management protocol used to automatically assign IP addresses and other network configuration parameters. @@ -385,6 +392,8 @@ This glossary defines technical terms, concepts, and terminology used in $COMPAN **Predictive maintenance**: the use of time-series data to forecast equipment failure, common in IoT and industrial applications. +**Prompt**: an input or instruction you give to an Agent. A prompt is normally text, but may be multimodal. For example, images and text. + **$PG**: an open-source object-relational database system known for its reliability, robustness, and performance. **PostGIS**: a $PG extension that adds support for geographic objects and spatial queries.