Glossary ​

CAP-related Terms and Acronyms

CAP — shorthand for "SAP Cloud Application Programming Model" : Not an official name, though.

capire — Italian for 'understand' : ... and the title of these pages and documentation of CAP.

tl;dr — too long; didn't read : a common social phenomenon these days. Therefore, capire is rather meagre with text and greased with code. You have to read between the lines, sorry.

CDS — Core Data and Services : a family of languages, tools and libraries to declare, process and consume conceptual, semantically enriched data models.

CDL — CDS Definition Language : a human-readable representation of CDS models.

CSN — Core Schema Notation : a plain (JavaScript) object-based representation of CDS models.
(pronounce like 'Ceason')

CQL — CDS Query Language : an extension of SQL leveraging Associations defined in CDS models.
(pronounce like 'Cequel')

CQN — Core Query Notation : a plain (JavaScript) object-based representation to capture queries.
(also contained in CSN)

CXN — Core Expression Notation : a plain (JavaScript) object-based representation to capture expressions.
(also contained in CQN)

JSON — JavaScript Object Notation : a lightweight data-interchange format. Although based on a minimal subset of JavaScript, JSON is meanwhile broadly adopted in all major languages.

YAML — YAML Ain't Markup Language : a human-friendly data-serialization language and alternative to JSON. Original: Yet Another Markup Language

OData — The OData Standard : Languages and protocols to expose and consume data-oriented REST services

CSDL — Common Schema Definition Language : the language within OData to declare service interfaces

EDM — Entity Data Model : the meta model of OData definitions

EDMX — Entity Data Model XML : the metadata file of OData definitions in XML format