Why Was This Name Chosen for the System?

Retractors, in medicine, are an entire group of surgical instruments. Retractors are also known as surgical hooks or spreaders. These are tools that allow anatomical structures (e.g. wounds, muscles, bones, etc.) to be pulled apart or held together. They’re typically used during surgery or another procedure. Some of the more inventive ones are named after their creators.

By analogy, I decided to name my tool a retractor. RetractorDB’s job is to separate, join, and enable real-time computation on time series, operating on the fly on ephemeral data, artifacts, or substrates (see the subchapter Artifacts, Substrates, Ephemerides).

ℹ️ Info

Definition (Data Retraction and Retractor): Using a numerical apparatus to extract, process, and then return data contained in time series or digital signals is called data retraction. The tool used to carry out this process is called a Data Retractor.