Sharding strategies

Sharding splits large datasets into smaller chunks (logical shards) distributed across different machines/database nodes to distribute traffic load. Improves application scalability. Supported by many but not all databases.

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• @article@Wikipedia - Sharding in Database Architectures
• @article@How sharding a database can make it faster
• @video@What is Database Sharding?
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