sharding
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "A universe always shedding, a rain of sheddings and shardings."
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Derived Forms
microsharding