In this post, I will introduce another common technique, partitioning, that provides further advantages in performance and management for a sharding database. I will also describe how to handle ...

Here are the realities: Most databases provide physical partitioning mechanisms that allow you to separate physical data over networks, including the open Internet, where a partition is hosted in ...

The latter creates a more uniform distribution of the data. Also known as "row splitting," vertical partitioning separates columns. For example, widely used columns are stored in one database ...