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(deprecated template usage) (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.
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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-# {{context|computing|lang=en}} A decomposition of a [[database]] into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
+# {{context|databases|lang=en}} 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'', [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=shardings&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sa=N&tab=ps 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.