Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

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I recently saw that Grails supports sharding via a nifty plugin. Briefly, sharding (as defined in Wikipedia) is a method of horizontal partitioning whereby rows of a database table are held separately ...