reshard

English

Etymology

re- + shard

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, databases) To redivide (a database) into shards.
    • 2011, Lars George, HBase: The Definitive Guide: Random Access to Your Planet-Size Data
      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.

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