| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | Extensible Storage Engine A method that defines a low-level API to the underlying database structures in Exchange Server. Extensible Storage Engine is also used by other databases, such as the Active Directory directory service database | moteur de stockage extensible (ESE) |
| comp., MS | storage engine | moteur de stockage (A component of SQL Server that is responsible for managing the raw physical data in your database. For example, reading and writing the data to disk is a task handled by the storage engine) |