FinancePlanetScaleover 2 years ago
Three surprising benefits of sharding a MySQL database
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Sharding a MySQL database spreads failure across servers, so an outage on one shard leaves others online. Smaller shards also speed up backups and reduce query impact. Each shard can run different MySQL versions, enabling gradual upgrades without full downtime.
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