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reshard

reshard verb: to redivide (a database) into shards.

Verb

reshard (third-person singular simple present reshards, present participle resharding, simple past and past participle resharded)

  1. (transitive) To redivide (a database) into shards.
    • The separation of values into those partitions is performed on fixed boundaries: you have to set fixed rules ahead of time to route values to their appropriate store. With it comes the inherent difficulty of having to reshard the data when one of the horizontal partitions exceeds its capacity.2011, Lars George, HBase: The Definitive Guide: Random Access to Your Planet-Size Data

Forms of reshard

third-person singular presentreshards
present participleresharding
past participleresharded
pastresharded

Origin of reshard

From re- + shard.

Questions about reshard

What does reshard mean?
Reshard means to redivide (a database) into shards.
What part of speech is reshard?
Reshard is a verb.
What is the past tense of reshard?
The past tense of reshard is resharded.

Words near reshard in the dictionary

  1. reshapers
  2. reshapes
  3. reshapeth
  4. reshaping
  5. reshapings
  6. reshard
  7. resharded
  8. resharding
  9. reshards
  10. reshare
  11. reshared

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