Transitive data skew is the uneven distribution of otherwise evenly distributed data

Data

The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...

across a number of devices while the data is in transition. If sorted data is being distributed across multiple devices and the column on which that data is sorted is the 'key' used to identify the target device, the resulting transitive data skew may be self-correcting.