| English | German |
| conceptual schema definition language | konzeptionelle Schemadefinitionssprache (An XML-based language that is used to define the entity types, associations, entity containers, entity sets, and association sets of a conceptual model) |
| data definition language | Datendefinitionssprache (A language that defines all attributes and properties of a database, especially record layouts, field definitions, key fields, file locations, and storage strategy) |
| interface definition language | Interface Definiton Language (In object-oriented programming, a language that lets a program or object written in one language communicate with another program written in an unknown language. An IDL is used to define interfaces between client and server programs. For example, an IDL can provide interfaces to remote CORBA objects) |
| Report Definition Language | Berichtsdefinitionssprache (A set of instructions that describe layout and query information for a report. RDL is composed of XML elements that conform to an XML grammar created for Reporting Services) |
| store schema definition language | Datenspeicherschema-Definitonssprache (An XML-based language that is used to define the entity types, associations, entity containers, entity sets, and association sets of a storage model, often corresponding to a database schema) |
| XML schema definition language | Sprache der XML-Schemadefinition (The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard language used for creating XML schema documents. The XML schema contains two parts: a set of predefined types (for example, string, dateTime, decimal), and an XML language for defining new types (for example, complexType, minOccurs, element)) |