Bucket is a generic term for a container that holds things, often used by programmers to refer to any temporary data store. In the software world, a bucket could be anything from a lowly array to a trendy NoSQL database like MongoDB.

How to use it in a sentence

Did you hear about the startup that just got $20 million in funding for their new distributed bucket system? I guess VCs will throw money at anything these days.

I told the new dev to store the user preferences in a bucket for now, but he just looked at me with a blank stare - maybe I should have been more specific than "I don't know, just put it somewhere."

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