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Sharding vs Sharking - What's the difference?

sharding | sharking |

As verbs the difference between sharding and sharking

is that sharding is while sharking is .

As a noun sharding

is (computing) a decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.

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  • (computing) 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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