name: Talend Cloud Vocabulary
description: >-
  Domain vocabulary for Qlik Talend Cloud APIs covering data integration,
  pipeline orchestration, execution management, remote engines, and cloud
  infrastructure concepts.
created: '2026-05-03'
modified: '2026-05-03'
tags:
  - Data Integration
  - ETL
  - Orchestration
  - Talend
terms:
  - term: Task
    definition: >-
      The fundamental unit of execution in Talend Cloud — a data integration
      pipeline job (e.g., a Talend Studio job or API Designer task) that reads
      from one or more sources, transforms data, and writes to a target.
    synonyms:
      - Job
      - Pipeline
    relatedTerms:
      - Plan
      - Execution
      - Artifact

  - term: Plan
    definition: >-
      An ordered sequence of tasks that execute in a defined workflow. Plans
      support conditional logic, error handling, and can be re-run from a
      failed step.
    synonyms:
      - Workflow
      - Execution Plan
    relatedTerms:
      - Task
      - Schedule
      - PlanExecution

  - term: Workspace
    definition: >-
      A logical container for grouping related tasks, plans, connections,
      and resources in Talend Cloud. Used to organize work by team, project,
      or data domain.
    relatedTerms:
      - Environment
      - Project

  - term: Environment
    definition: >-
      A deployment target in Talend Cloud (e.g., Development, Staging,
      Production) that determines which connections, parameters, and engines
      are used when a task or plan executes.
    relatedTerms:
      - Workspace
      - RemoteEngine
      - Promotion

  - term: Artifact
    definition: >-
      A deployable package containing compiled Talend job code (typically a ZIP
      or JAR file). Artifacts are versioned and associated with tasks for
      deployment across environments.
    relatedTerms:
      - Task
      - Environment

  - term: Remote Engine
    definition: >-
      A self-hosted Talend execution engine installed on-premises or in a private
      cloud. Remote engines process data locally and report execution results
      to Talend Cloud for monitoring.
    synonyms:
      - Runtime Engine
      - RE
    relatedTerms:
      - RemoteEngineCluster
      - RunProfile
      - Processing

  - term: Remote Engine Cluster
    definition: >-
      A group of remote engines configured to share workloads for high
      availability and load balancing.
    relatedTerms:
      - RemoteEngine
      - RunProfile

  - term: Run Profile
    definition: >-
      A named configuration for task execution on a specific remote engine,
      defining parallelism, memory settings, and execution parameters.
    relatedTerms:
      - RemoteEngine
      - Task

  - term: Connection
    definition: >-
      A configured, reusable data source or destination definition including
      host, credentials, and protocol (e.g., JDBC, S3, Snowflake, REST API).
      Connections can be shared across tasks and environments.
    relatedTerms:
      - Workspace
      - Task

  - term: Execution
    definition: >-
      A single run of a task or plan, tracked with a unique execution ID,
      start/end timestamps, status, and log URL.
    synonyms:
      - Run
      - Job Run
    relatedTerms:
      - Task
      - Plan
      - RemoteEngine

  - term: Execution Status
    definition: >-
      The current or final state of a task or plan execution.
    values:
      - RUNNING
      - SUCCESS
      - FAILURE
      - CANCELLED
      - PARTIAL_SUCCESS
    relatedTerms:
      - Execution

  - term: Schedule
    definition: >-
      A time-based trigger for automatic task or plan execution, defined by
      a cron expression and timezone. Schedules can also be triggered by
      external events.
    relatedTerms:
      - Task
      - Plan

  - term: Promotion
    definition: >-
      The process of migrating tasks, plans, and configurations from one
      environment to another (e.g., Development to Production) using Talend
      Cloud's built-in change management workflow.
    relatedTerms:
      - Environment
      - Workspace

  - term: Personal Access Token
    definition: >-
      A user-generated token used to authenticate API requests to Talend Cloud.
      Generated through the Talend Cloud management console and included in the
      Authorization header as a Bearer token.
    synonyms:
      - PAT
      - Access Token
    relatedTerms:
      - Service Account Token
      - BearerAuth

  - term: Service Account Token
    definition: >-
      A machine-to-machine authentication token generated via the Talend Service
      Accounts API using the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials flow. Used for automated
      integrations and CI/CD pipelines.
    relatedTerms:
      - Personal Access Token
      - OAuth

  - term: ETL
    definition: >-
      Extract, Transform, Load — the data integration pattern implemented by
      Talend tasks that read data from source systems, apply transformations,
      and load results to target systems.
    synonyms:
      - ELT
      - Data Integration
      - Data Pipeline
    relatedTerms:
      - Task
      - Connection

  - term: SCIM v2
    definition: >-
      System for Cross-domain Identity Management version 2 — standard protocol
      for automated user and group provisioning in Talend Cloud from enterprise
      identity providers like Okta or Microsoft Entra ID.
    relatedTerms:
      - SSO Role Mapping
      - Identities Management