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Shard (database architecture)

Known as: Shard (database), Shard, Database sharding 
A database shard is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each individual partition is referred to as a shard or database… 
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Highly Cited
2019
Highly Cited
2019
SoK: Communication Across Distributed Ledgers
—Communication across distributed systems, each running its own consensus, is a problem previously studied under the assumption… 
Highly Cited
2019
Highly Cited
2019
OptChain: Optimal Transactions Placement for Scalable Blockchain Sharding
A major challenge in blockchain sharding protocols is that more than 95% transactions are cross-shard. Not only those cross-shard… 
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
WiscKey
We present WiscKey, a persistent LSM-tree-based key-value store with a performance-oriented data layout that separates keys from… 
2016
2016
Sovrin : digital identities in the blockchain era
In this paper we describe a practical digital identity project of a global scale, which solves a number of privacy and… 
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Towards high performance paged memory for GPUs
Despite industrial investment in both on-die GPUs and next generation interconnects, the highest performing parallel accelerators… 
2015
2015
Selective Search
The traditional search solution for large collections divides the collection into subsets (shards), and processes the query… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Distributed and interactive cube exploration
Interactive ad-hoc analytics over large datasets has become an increasingly popular use case. We detail the challenges… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Balanced label propagation for partitioning massive graphs
Partitioning graphs at scale is a key challenge for any application that involves distributing a graph across disks, machines, or… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Boundary conditions in small-deformation, single-crystal plasticity that account for the Burgers vector
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Neurotransmitter Synthesis by Neuroblastoma Clones
Neuroblastoma clones were examined for choline acetyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.6), tyrosine hydroxylase (EC 1.14.3.a… 
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