Partitioning
Partitioning is a general term used to describe the act of breaking up data and distributing it across different hosts. There are two types of partitioning: horizontal partitioning and vertical partitioning. Partitioning is performed in a cluster of hosts when better performance, maintainability, or availability is desired.
When Redis was initially designed, it had no intention to be a distributed data store; thus, it cannot natively distribute its data among different instances. It was designed to work well on a single server. Redis Cluster is designed to solve distributed problems in Redis.
Over time, Redis storage may grow to such an extent that a single server may not be enough to store all of the data. The performance of reading ...
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