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Sharding vs. partitioning: What’s the difference?

Sharding and partitioning are techniques to divide and scale large databases. Sharding distributes data across multiple servers, while partitioning splits tables within one server. Database sharding and partitioning Partitioning and sharding are two common ways to improve performance, manageability, and availability of larger databases. You need to understand the differences between the two solutions in order to determine the most appropriate approach for your database architecture. What is shar

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