sharding
English
Noun
sharding (countable and uncountable, plural shardings)
- (databases) A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
- 2006, A Merchant, M Kallahalla, R Swaminathan, Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs, US Patent 7,043,621
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006, A Merchant, M Kallahalla, R Swaminathan, Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs, US Patent 7,043,621
- A breaking into shards.
- 1991, Lorraine Anderson, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature, page 196
- 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
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