sharding

Noun

 * 1)  A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) A breaking into shards.
 * 1) A breaking into shards.