Docs: Updates glossary and orders it
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.. glossary::
- Procedures
- On-node computations, these can either be a single computation (energy,
- gradient, property, etc.) or a series of calculations such as a geometry
- optimization.
-
- Services
- Iterative workflows where the required computations are distributed via
- the queue and then are processed on the server to acquire the next iteration of
- calculations.
-
- Queue Adapter
- The interface between QCFractal's internal queue representation and other
- queueing systems such as Dask or Fireworks.
-
- Molecule
- A unique 3D representation of a molecule. Any changes to the protonation
- state, multiplicity, charge, fragments, coordinates, connectivity, isotope, or
- ghost atoms represent a change in the molecule.
+ DB Index
+ A DB Index (or Database Index) is a commonly queried field used to speed up
+ searches in a :term:`DB Table`.
DB Socket
A DB Socket (or Database Socket) is the interface layer between standard
Python queries and raw SQL or MongoDB query language.
- DB Index
- A DB Index (or Database Index) is a commonly queried field used to speed up
- searches in a :term:`DB Table`.
+ DB Table
+ A set of data inside the Database which has a common :term:`ObjectId`. The ``table``
+ name follows SQL conventions which is also known as a ``collection`` in MongoDB.
Hash Index
A index that hashes the information contained in the object
in a reproducible manner. This hash index is only used to find duplicates
and should not be relied upon as it may change in the future.
+ Molecule
+ A unique 3D representation of a molecule. Any changes to the protonation
+ state, multiplicity, charge, fragments, coordinates, connectivity, isotope, or
+ ghost atoms represent a change in the molecule.
+
ObjectId
A ObjectId (or Database ID) is a unique ID for a given row (a document or
entry) in the database that uniquely defines that particular row in a
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different for every database, but outlines ways to reference other rows
in the database quickly. A ObjectId is unique to a DB Table.
- DB Table
- A set of data inside the Database which has a common :term:`ObjectId`. The ``table``
- name follows SQL conventions which is also known as a ``collection`` in MongoDB.
+ Procedures
+ On-node computations, these can either be a single computation (energy,
+ gradient, property, etc.) or a series of calculations such as a geometry
+ optimization.
+
+ Queue Adapter
+ The interface between QCFractal's internal queue representation and other
+ queueing systems such as Dask or Fireworks.
+
+ Record
+ A document that contains all results (or links) of a given computation.
+
+ Services
+ Iterative workflows where the required computations are distributed via
+ the queue and then are processed on the server to acquire the next iteration of
+ calculations.
+
+
+
+
+
+
