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impedance mismatch

noun

Etymology

Derived from the concept of impedance matching in electrical engineering.

Definitions

  1. A set of conceptual and technical difficulties that are often encountered when a…

    A set of conceptual and technical difficulties that are often encountered when a relational database is being served by an object-oriented application program, particularly because objects or class definitions must be mapped to database tables defined by a relational schema.

    • Some argue that having impedance mismatch is difficult for programming intensive applications.
    • But the impedance mismatch between SQL and Java was no better than between SQL and other languages.
    • Why does a technological impedance mismatch exist?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for impedance mismatch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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