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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
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High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails

by Andrew Atkinson
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 34m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Using Horizontal Sharding for Multitenancy

Horizontal sharding was added to Active Record multiple databases in 6.1.[355]

Horizontal sharding is a general mechanism to run copies of a same-schema database on more instances. What are some use cases?

One compelling use case for horizontal sharding is for multitenant architectures. For Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms with hundreds of customers, some customers may have exceptional query volume or data growth. When those customers are in a database on an instance that’s shared by many customers, they can create a “noisy neighbor” problem, where the resources they consume degrade the performance for others.

To address that, organizations may migrate the data for that customer out of the multicustomer ...

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