July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
7h 43m
English
Horizontal scaling
or sharding refers to partitioning the data from one single big table in a database, across multiple independent databases based on
a sharding or partitioning key. For example, a customer table is partitioned across multiple independent databases on
CustomerID. Each independent database stores data for one or more customers.
Horizontal scaling can be helpful when:
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