Ok i've got a bit of confusion between the terms horizontal partitioning and sharding. Is sharding simply horizontal partitioning across multiple databases?

Is sharding simply horizontal partitioning across multiple databases?

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

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answered Oct 14 '22 03:10

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