Sharding, and all that

Andy Wardley abw at wardley.org
Thu Dec 18 11:54:53 GMT 2008


Mark Fowler wrote:
> What's the collective group think on these?

There's a good series of articles on sharding starting here:

http://lifescaler.com/2008/04/database-sharding-unraveled-part-i/

The conclusion I drew from it was that functional partitioning
(where possible) was much easier to implement than horizontal partitioning.

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