Terminology Cheat Sheet

A summary of relational and TerminusDB graph database terms.

Relational database term
TerminusDB/graph database term
​Attribute​
Property
Data type
Data type
Database
Database or Data Product
​Entity or Table
Element, Document, Object, Node, or Vertex​
Entity Relationship Model (ERM)
Element Relationship Model (ERM)
​Relationship​
Relationship or Edge​
​Schema​
Schema
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Web Object Query Language (WOQL)

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Relational vs Graph Databases

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Relational database term	TerminusDB/graph database term
Attribute	Property
Data type	Data type
Database	Database or Data Product
Entity or Table	Element, Document, Object, Node, or Vertex
Entity Relationship Model (ERM)	Element Relationship Model (ERM)
Relationship	Relationship or Edge
Schema	Schema
Structured Query Language (SQL)	Web Object Query Language (WOQL)