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# Glossary

> Unpicking the tangled alphabet soup of the Capella Columnar Platform, from an SDK perspective. 

Couchbase Analytics SDK documentation uses terms from Enterprise Analytics which may carry different meanings from those same terms in other parts of Couchbase. Below you will find short definitions of Analytics-related terms, with links to the pages that describe them in more detail, or show practical examples of their use. In particular, we look to define terms that may — of necessity — carry slight variations of meaning from their operational cluster use.

* [Standalone Collection](../../../analytics/sources/manage-columnar.md#work-with-a-standalone-collection) — documents from one or more existing Columnar collections can be organized into standalone collections.

## [](#further-reading)Further Reading

Glossaries are available for:

* [Couchbase Server](../../../server/current/learn/glossary.md)
* [Couchbase operational SDKs](#java-sdk:reference:glossary.adoc)
* [Couchbase Eventing Service](../../../server/current/eventing/eventing-Terminologies.md)
* [Couchbase Lite (Android)](../../../couchbase-lite/current/android/refer-glossary.md)
* [Sync Gateway](../../../sync-gateway/current/glossary.md)

The Server and SDK Glossaries takes the form of an index, linking to other pages, in the same manner as this page.