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The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

Sharding is a form of database partitioning, also known as horizontal partitioning. The process involves breaking up a very large database into smaller, more manageable segments, with the idea of ...

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for ...