Reshard

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To redivide (a database) into shards. transitive

    "The separation of values into those partitions is performed on fixed boundaries: you have to set fixed rules ahead of time to route values to their appropriate store. With it comes the inherent difficulty of having to reshard the data when one of the horizontal partitions exceeds its capacity."

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"The separation of values into those partitions is performed on fixed boundaries: you have to set fixed rules ahead of time to route values to their appropriate store. With it comes the inherent difficulty of having to reshard the data when one of the horizontal partitions exceeds its capacity."

Etymology

From re- + shard.

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