GF.Raw Retention
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GF | Raw Retention | Version: | 0.91 | 
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| Document type: | Generic Function | Owner: |
 | Function that handles storing/retrieving/updating/deleting unstructured data such as bits and bytes. |
Description
This Generic Function belongs to Working Area Storage. This function operates at the lowest data abstraction level, that of the "unstructured data" level, storing sets of elementary data elements, such as the bits and bytes on a hard disk. It offers the basic operations of storing, retrieving, modifying and deleting data. When more "intelligence" is needed with respect to data retention, then this function needs to be paired with a Retention Engine function.
As examples: realizations of this function can include:
- (a set of) hard disks;
- tape drives;
- Optical media such as DVDs, either rewritable or only writable.
Icon
The image "Icon GF Raw Retention.png" (shown below) can be used to represent this infrastructure function in graphical Pattern representations that it might be part of:
Generic Patterns using this Generic Function
The following Generic Patterns use this function:
| Applied Pattern | Owner | Maturity |
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| Raw Storage | J.A.H. Schoonderbeek | 4 |
Applied versions of this Generic Function
The following variants of this function have been defined:
No Applied Pattern based on this Generic Pattern (yet)
