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# {{lb|en|databases}} A decomposition of a [[database]] into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
# {{lb|en|databases}} A decomposition of a [[database]] into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2006|author=A Merchant|author2=M Kallahalla|author3=R Swaminathan|title=Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs|sectionurl=http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=shardings&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sa=N&tab=ps|section=US Patent 7,043,621
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|passage=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.}}
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#* '''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''
#* '''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''

Latest revision as of 16:09, 29 August 2023

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sharding

  1. present participle and gerund of shard

Noun

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sharding (countable and uncountable, plural shardings)

  1. (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.
  2. 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.

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