DevPlanetScaleabout 3 years ago
What is database sharding and how does it work?
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Sharding splits a database across multiple servers to reduce load and improve performance. Each partition is called a shard. Horizontal sharding splits rows across servers. Vertical sharding splits by schema or table. The strategy helps scale out relational databases like MySQL and Postgres instead of scaling up.
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