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Zielspeicher

Zielspeicher is a German term used in information technology and data management to denote the destination storage location for data that results from processing, transformation, or transfer. It is the counterpart to Quellspeicher (source storage) within data pipelines, replication, and migration tasks.

In practice, der Zielspeicher can be a relational database, data warehouse, data lake, file server, or cloud

In documentation, the term appears in project glossaries and technical manuals but is not a standardized ISO

storage
that
holds
the
output
of
a
workflow.
Its
selection
depends
on
requirements
such
as
access
patterns,
latency,
throughput,
data
model,
and
governance.
Data
formats
and
schemas
may
be
defined
for
the
Zielspeicher
to
ensure
compatibility
with
downstream
applications.
concept.
It
is
typically
used
alongside
terms
like
Quellspeicher,
Zielsystem,
and
Speicherziel.
Example
usage:
in
an
ETL
process,
data
is
loaded
from
the
Quellspeicher
into
the
Zielspeicher
after
transformation;
in
a
backup
scenario,
the
Zielspeicher
stores
archived
data.