sharding
Speech parts
1. sharding - Noun
2. sharding - Verb
Meaning
sharding
present participle of shard
(databases) A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
A breaking into shards.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAnagrams
Examples
A MongoDB consulting engineer will help you understand the inner workings of sharding MongoDB for horizontal scaling and setting up your deployment for high availability and disaster recovery.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, it's also possible to implement sharding to scale out Redis throughput and memory capacity.
For months now, the business team at Lucidchart has been overhearing discussions of “sharding” from the other end of the office.
Because there was no sharding going on, all data operations went to one server.
If you have such a clean split in the data model, then sharding is “easy”.
MongoDB's sharding and schema free document model made it a perfect fit for our in-house solution.