The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not. Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

It’s interesting; when you look at the performance of a typical enterprise application deployed to the cloud, the prototypical points of contention when it comes to performance disappear, and a ...

The notion of sharding has become increasingly crucial for selecting and optimizing database architectures. In many cases, sharding is a means of horizontally distributing data; if properly ...