EnterprisePlanetScaleover 1 year ago
Database Sharding
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Sharding scales databases by distributing data across multiple servers called shards. Uber, Shopify, Slack, and Cash App use sharding with Vitess and MySQL. PlanetScale Vitess clusters use Workflows to simplify explicit sharding without adding logic to application code.
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