Glossary

Data Access Account

A local user within a Tenant

Default Namespace

The legacy Namespace, a relict from the time before HCP version 3. Doesn’t support user authentication. Seldomly used in our days, deprecated. (default.default.hcp.domain.com or www.hcp.domain.com)

Default Tenant

The legacy Tenant, containing the Default Namespace, only. Seldomly used in our days, deprecated. (default.hcp.domain.com)

DNS

Domain Name System - used to translate an FQDN to IP addresses

FQDN

Full Qualified Domain Name (namespace.tenant.hcp.domain.com)

HS3

Amazon S3 compatible interface

HSwift

OpenStack Swift compatible interface

MAPI

Management API - a reSTful interface to manage HCP

Namespace

A Namespace is a addressable data store, separated from other namespaces, having an individual filesystem-like structure, several access protocols along with a set of other configurables.

reST

representational State Transfer

An architectural approach for client/server communication for performance, scalability, simplicity, reliability and more. See the Wikipedia entry for more details.

Tenant

A Tenant within HCP is an administrative entity that allows to configure and manage a set of namespaces within a configurable storage quota, along with the user account required to access data.