Glossary

Term	Definition	Further reading
Account	Owner of resources, usage, and API Keys; personal or team-based	Account management
Organization	Team account with member roles for collaboration	Account management
Space	Workspace organizing an account’s tables, functions, scripts, queries, and dashboards	Account management
ID	Resource identifier, such as table ID `demo.asset_notes`, distinct from its display name	Create and manage tables
Schema	Definition of a table’s fields, types, and structure	Create and manage tables
Primary key	Key uniquely identifying a record, usually `id`	How tables work
Normal Table	Table retaining current records by primary key	How tables work
Block Event Table	Table organizing individual events by block	How tables work
Block State Table	Table retaining block state and historical changes by business ID	How tables work
Time Table	Table organizing state points by business ID and time	How tables work
Start Height	First height in a block table’s coverage	How tables work
Consensus Height	Continuously completed progress from the start height	How tables work
Archive	Historical changes retained by a state table	How tables work
Write job	Asynchronous batch-write task whose submission and final status are checked separately	Inspect asynchronous write jobs
Function	Computation that executes with defined arguments and returns a result	How Functions work
Notebook	Resource storing a Python driver script and parameter definitions	Create a Notebook
Instance	One Notebook execution with its own code, arguments, resources, and logs	Manage runs
Pipeline	Driver configuration that reads trigger records, calls functions, and writes a target table	Build a Pipeline
Source	Pipeline source specifying a table, function, arguments, and filter	Build a Pipeline
Requires	Tables whose data must be ready at a block’s height before processing it	Build a Pipeline
Backfill	Processing a historical block range to build historical data	Build a Pipeline
Schedule	Configuration for automatically executing saved resources	Schedule
Crontab	Schedule mode triggered by time rules	Schedule
Continuous	Schedule mode that keeps a script running and restarts it after exit	Schedule
Personal Access Token	User credential for programmatic platform access from scripts, development tools, or AI assistants	Authentication
Access Key	Account credential for high-volume production calls to supported OpenAPI endpoints	Authentication
Compute Unit (CU)	OpenAPI usage unit calculated from request processing time	API calls
Query	Saved SQL and parameters; each execution creates a new query job and result	SQL queries
Visualization	Chart configuration based on query results	Visualizations and dashboards
Dashboard	Page combining multiple visualizations	Visualizations and dashboards
Offline replica	Synchronized data copy used for SQL analytics	How analytics works
BlockDB	Data layer for table access and block and time state	blockdb-py
BlockX	Compute layer for functions and batch tasks	blockx-py
Leafage	Service for fixed-block chain state and contract calls	leafage-py

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