sharding

== English == === Verb === sharding present participle and gerund of shard === Noun === sharding (countable and uncountable, plural shardings) (databases) A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually. 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. === Derived terms === microsharding === Further reading === sharding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Darghins, Dhingras, hard sign