| Yres | The Azure data platform (data warehouse-as-a-service). Formerly Iris. |
| Iris | Old product name of Yres. Still appears in resource names, Confluence (spaceKey=IRIS) and internal URLs. |
| Organization | Isolated space in which a customer uses Yres; contains dev + prod by default. |
| Environment | Isolated version of an organization. At minimum dev and prod; optionally test, acceptance, quality. |
| Project | Categorizes work within an environment; contains changes and has a due date. |
| Change | Set of edits to the data warehouse, to be released and installed to other environments. |
| Scripted object | Custom SQL object (table, SP, function) not generated by Yres, managed under a change. |
| Data source | Connected source from which data is loaded (database, app, OData/REST). |
| ADF | Azure Data Factory — orchestration layer that Yres generates pipelines to. |
| Integration Runtime (IR) | ADF compute; reaches sources in local networks. Default AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime; self-hosted IRs possible. |
| Dictionary | Stored source metadata (tables, fields, keys, relations). Not for file and REST sources. |
| Load type | FULL, DELTA, OVERWRITE, RELOAD, IMAGE, ADDITIONAL, Delta Image. See databron-koppelen. |
| HIS | History schema (name via SchemaHIS). |
| STAGE | Staging schema for delta loads (name via SchemaStage). |
| ODS | Operational Data Store. |
| Persisted view | Stored result of a view query; loaded in level order. |
| Master pipeline | ADF pipeline designed from the frontend with conditional flow (on success/failure/completion). |
| Dynamic Workflow Yres | The generic load pipeline (source/schema/table). |
| Surrogate key | Key generated by Yres for the natural key; stored in [LoadManagement].[SurrogateKeys]. |
| Service tier | Azure database tier. < S3 no Columnstore; < P1 no in-memory. |
| DefaultStore | Row- (read/write) or column-oriented (queries) storage. |
| SSO | Single Sign-On via Azure; enforceable per user. |
| RBAC | Role-based access control; roles defined as CRUD per permission type. |
| DTAP | Development, Test, Acceptance, Production. |
| Plainwater | The company behind Yres. |