
98 CHAPTER 6 Shared-nothing Partitioning
way queries can be answered in a fraction of the time. That’s the concept of shared-
nothing partitioning, and we’ll see it has distinct benefits and design challenges.
Interestingly, shared-nothing partitioning is more like political divide and conquer
than the usual computer science version because it is nonrecursive.
6.1
Understanding Shared-nothing Partitioning
6.1.1 Shared-nothing Architecture
The two extremes of parallel-processing architecture are shared everything and shared
nothing (Figure 6.1). The terms mean pretty much what they imply. With shared every-
thing, a single computer solves complex processing ...