Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes – Dare Obasanjo

Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes - Dare Obasanjo

OpiniDatabase sharding is the process of splitting up a database across multiple machines to improve the scalability of an application. The justification for database sharding is that after a certain scale point it is cheaper and more feasible to scale a site horizontally by adding more machines than to grow it vertically by adding beefier servers.

March 24, 2022 at 12:33AM