The context: I have 2 databases. The source database where I retrieve data and the target database where I insert data.
What is the collective name I can use for source and target in this context? Target can also be called destination.
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Sign up to join this communityThe context: I have 2 databases. The source database where I retrieve data and the target database where I insert data.
What is the collective name I can use for source and target in this context? Target can also be called destination.
Endpoint may work:
either of two points or values that mark the ends of a line segment or interval
either of the two nodes of a graph; either of two extreme points on a line segment
I asked myself the same question while developing an application dealing with data transfers from and to multiple sources and destinations. After reading this thread, the term 'repository' came to my mind. The spring-data project, providing an abstraction to different data sources and targets, is also using it. Another term I have seen is use is 'store', but I think 'repository' is less ambiguous.
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