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🦾 A sharp piece 🗄️ A data part 🗄️ To split data
shard

shard

2 7.2
A part of a database that holds only some data
  • noun
  • /ʃɑrd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : partición
  • London is no exception, and the city's three newest attractions -- The Shard, the Emirates Air-Line cable car, and The Orbit in the Olympic Park -- all pride themselves on offering spectacular views of the capital for those who want to pay for it.
  • shard of memory
  • shard of metal

It's in Google Drive, in the Shard drives.

Examples

  • It's in Google Drive, in the Shard drives.

    H3 Podcast

  • All right, So it predicts the Shard gaffe ratio and it also predicts the distances.

  • Your mention of skyscrapers becoming obsolete like battleships reminded me that people going to the Wikipedia daily page might have noticed an entry about The Shard.

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  • Canary Wharf used to be the focal point, but The Shard's recent appearance is certainly stealing the limelight on London's skyline today.

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  • The company split its data into several shards to improve processing times across multiple servers.

  • Using shards of the database, the engineers were able to distribute the workload efficiently.

  • Each shard holds a specific segment of the user data, making it easier to manage large datasets.

Synonyms

chunk
vsshard
  • Specialized
24 5.1

A piece of a file used when storing or sending information on a computer

is a logical subset that distributes data across machines rather than fixed-size blocks
partition
vsshard
  • Specialized
12 4.8

A separate area on a disk or computer where files are kept

is a division that specifically places subsets on different machines for distribution

How Big

database
  • Specialized
402 3.4
shard
  • Specialized
2 7.2
segment
501 3.0
record
∞ 2.5

Surface Forms

shard singular
shards plural

Etymology

Shard in computing borrows the picture of a small broken piece — think of one fragment of a larger object. So a database shard holds only part of the whole set of data, which helps the system work faster.