Scale, scale, scale…For most of the professional life span of a database architect, these words reverberate whenever a new application is being developed. The most difficult challenge is to design a database in elastic mode. In the world of relational database management systems (RDBMSs), this can occasionally be a nightmare, and it is a difficult task in realm of NoSQL too. In this chapter, you are going to learn how, using partitioning, Azure Cosmos DB scales databases.
Sharding
In MongoDB, scaling is handled through a process called sharding. This is a manual configuration process ...
