sharding
noun1
Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
- A storage volume with many different potential shardings is analyzed more rapidly by the reuse of calculations made on neighboring vertices in the directed graph.2006, A Merchant, M Kallahalla, R Swaminathan, Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs, US Patent 7,043,621:
- 2007, T Brants, AC Popat, P Xu, FJ Och, J Dean, "Large Language Models in Machine Translation", in Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Empirical Methods in A sharding function determines which shard (chunk of data in the MapReduce framework) the pair is sent to.
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A breaking into shards.
- A universe always shedding, a rain of sheddings and shardings.1991, Lorraine Anderson, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature, page 196:
- Derived terms
- microsharding