sharding — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.

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   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.

2. A breaking into shards.

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   A universe always shedding, a rain of sheddings and shardings.