TechPlanetScalealmost 3 years ago
The art and science of database sharding
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Database sharding splits large datasets across multiple servers to improve performance and scalability. The technique distributes data based on a shard key, enabling parallel queries and reducing load on individual nodes. Proper shard key selection is critical to avoid uneven data distribution and hot spots.
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