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Sharding

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    A breaking into shards. countable, uncountable

    "A universe always shedding, a rain of sheddings and shardings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of shard form-of, gerund, participle, present

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