Sharding
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sharding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of shard.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of shard.
More Meanings
- (databases) A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
- A breaking into shards.
Example Sentences
A universe always shedding, a rain of sheddings and shardings.
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.
Word Forms
- shardings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fragment, sherd, splinter, sliver, outburst, flare.
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