salvestatava

Salvestatava is an Estonian term used in computer science and data management to describe data, objects, or states that can be saved to persistent storage or serialized for later reconstruction. The term derives from the verb salvestama (to save or record) and the attributive suffix -atav, yielding salvestatav as the base adjective. In usage, salvestatava modifies nouns in contexts such as salvestatava teabe or salvestatav klass, roughly translating to “saveable” or “persistable.”

In computing, salvestatav indicates that an entity supports persistence: it can be written to durable storage and later restored. This contrasts with volatile or ephemeral data, which exist only in memory during a program run. Persistence may be achieved through mechanisms like serialization, databases, or file systems. The term is often used alongside related concepts such as serialiseerimine (serialization) and taastamine (deserialization).

Examples include a salvestatav objekt (persistable object) whose state can be serialized to JSON or XML, a salvestatav olek (persistable state) stored in a database, or a salvestatav fail (persistable file) written to disk. The concept emphasizes whether an item’s state survives program termination and system restarts, guiding design decisions for data modeling and storage strategies.

See also: salvestus, püsivus, serialiseerimine, taasesitus.