sharding
suomi-englanti sanakirjasharding englanniksi
(infl of)
A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
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- A sharding function determines which shard (chunk of data in the MapReduce framework) the pair is sent to.
A breaking into shards.
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