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Is sharding simply horizontal partitioning across multiple databases?

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Ok i've got a bit of confusion between the terms horizontal partitioning and sharding.

Is sharding simply horizontal partitioning across multiple databases?

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totsum Avatar asked Oct 11 '22 13:10

totsum

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In short, yes. Longer answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_%28database_architecture%29

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Marc B Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 03:10

Marc B
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