Terms and concepts
Conceptual information about the objects and entities that involved in a Sitecore Commerce install.
This table provides conceptual information about the objects and entities that are involved in a Sitecore Commerce install:
SCpbMD | Sitecore Commerce powered by Microsoft Dynamics AX. This is the combined Sitecore and Microsoft Dynamics AX solution. |
SCpbCS | Sitecore Commerce powered by Commerce Server |
CD Server | Content Delivery Sever is a Sitecore server role, which is responsible for serving up published content from the Web database. |
CM Server | Content Management Sever is a Sitecore server role, which is responsible for serving unpublished content from the Master database. |
Processing Server | A server role that is part of the xDB deployment. This is used to aggregate engagement data and optionally hold user session state. |
Reporting Server | A server role, which is part of the xDB deployment, used to serve up aggregated engagement data. |
Master database | A Sitecore database used to store unpublished content. |
Web database | A Sitecore database used to store published data. |
Core database | A database shared between master and web that is used to store various settings, applications, templates, and user account data. |
Config file | Files with a “.config” extension found under the \Website\App_Config\ folder of a Sitecore instance. These files contain settings and pipelines for various Sitecore and custom modules. |
Config patching | The ability or override or insert settings into another Sitecore config file without manually modifying the target. More details can be found in the Include File Patching Facilities Guide. |
Commerce Server Site | Different from an IIS or Sitecore Website. A Commerce Server Site is a collection of Commerce Server resources. For example, Catalog, Profile, Orders, and Marketing, which can be used by multiple Sitecore websites. |
Commerce Server PuP Package | PuP (Package UnPackage) packages are a way to package up and move Commerce Server resources and data. |
Commerce Server Resources | A Commerce Server resource is another name of a Commerce Server sub system, such as Profiles, Catalog, Orders, or Marketing. |
CSS | Commerce Server Staging. |
Sitecore XP | A short name for the Sitecore Experience Platform. |
BizTalk ( BTS) | BizTalk Server is Microsoft's central platform for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). |
Delivery network | The network that contains the external facing websites and roles. For example, CD role |
Internal network | The network that contains the authoring environment and roles. For example, CM and Reporting |
EAI | Enterprise Application Integration is the use of software and computer systems' architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications. |
ETL | Extract Transform Load. A generic term used to describe the extraction of data from a system, the result of which is transformed and then imported into another system. |