dependency
a relationship between two operations that establishes ordering constraints, such as process, write-read, or real-time dependency
dependency in a sentence
“The audit log had a write-read dependency on the transaction table.”
Related Words
definite error
an operation return indicating the operation definitely did not happen, such as a transaction abort
indefinite error
an operation return where the outcome is uncertain; the operation may or may not have executed, exemplified by timeouts
predicate
a condition identifying a set of objects rather than a single item, such as all rows matching a WHERE clause
process
a logically single-threaded state machine participating in a distributed system
process dependency
a relationship between subsequent operations performed by the same process
real-time dependency
a relationship between operations where one ends before another begins