Speicherfähige

Speicherfähige is a German adjective describing the property of being capable of being stored or retained in storage or memory. It is derived from the noun Speicher (storage, memory) and the suffix -fähig (able to). The term is used across different domains to indicate that an object, data item, or material can be written, persisted, or preserved for later retrieval.

In information technology and data management, speicherfähige data or speicherfähige Objekte are those that can be serialized and written to persistent storage, such as files, databases, or memory caches. The concept is closely related to persistence, serialization, and persistence mechanisms, and it helps distinguish between transient, in-memory elements and those intended for long-term retention. In this sense, an object might be described as speicherfähig if there exists a defined format and process to store and later reconstruct it.

The term also appears in contexts outside software, for example in materials science or hardware, where speicherfähige Materialien or speicherfähige Komponenten refer to substances or devices that can retain information or state, often under certain conditions or after a process such as writing or erasure.

Differences to related terms: speicherbar is a closely related, perhaps more common, descriptor for things that can be stored. Speicherfähigkeit as a noun denotes the overall ability or capacity to be stored, including requirements or limitations of the storage mechanism.

See also: Persistenz, Serialisierung, Speicherkapazität, Speichermedium.