sharding — noun a) A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually. A storage volume with many different potential shardings is analyzed more rapidly by the reuse of calculations made on neighboring vertices… … Wiktionary
Shard (database architecture) — A Shard is a method of horizontal partitioning in a database. Shard database architecture Horizontal partitioning is a design principle whereby rows of a database table are held separately, rather than splitting by columns (as for normalization) … Wikipedia
Shared nothing architecture — A shared nothing architecture (SN) is a distributed computing architecture in which each node is independent and self sufficient, and there is no single point of contention across the system. People typically contrast SN with systems that keep a… … Wikipedia
MySQL — Developer(s) MySQL AB (A subsidiary of Oracle) Initial release May 23, 1995 (1995 05 23 … Wikipedia
CodeFutures — Corporation. Type Corporation Industry Software Founded London, UK (2001) Headquarters Louisville, CO Products FireStorm/DAO dbShards … Wikipedia
MongoDB — Developer(s) 10gen Initial release 2009 Stable release 2.0.1 / October 22, 2011; 31 days ago ( … Wikipedia
MongoDB — Entwickler 10gen Erscheinungsjahr 2009 Betriebssystem Cross platform Programmiersprache … Deutsch Wikipedia
MapReduce — is a software framework introduced by Google in 2004 to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers.[1] Parts of the framework are patented in some countries.[2] The framework is inspired by the map and reduce… … Wikipedia