Distributed Dataset

A Distributed Dataset is a dataset that is physically distributed.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a File-based Distributed Dataset to being an In-Memory Distributed Dataset (such as a Spark dataframe).
• Example(s):
  • a dataset in a Distributed DBMS.
  • a Bitcoin Ledger.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Centralized Dataset.
• See: Big Data, Sharded Database.

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