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G. Harrison, M. HarrisonMongoDB Performance Tuninghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6879-7_14

14. Sharding

Guy Harrison1   and Michael Harrison2
(1)
Kingsville, VIC, Australia
(2)
Derrimut, VIC, Australia
 

In the previous chapter, we covered the most commonly deployed MongoDB configuration: replica sets. Replica sets are essential for modern applications requiring availability that a single MongoDB instance cannot provide. As we’ve seen, replica sets can do some limited scaling of reads through secondary write. But, for large applications, particularly where the write workload exceeds the capability of a single cluster, sharded clusters may be deployed.

Everything we have covered in previous chapters is entirely ...

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