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 ...

The notion of sharding has become increasingly crucial for selecting and optimizing database architectures. In many cases, sharding is a means of horizontally distributing data; if properly ...

Early scaling decisions can come back to haunt you. Follow these tips to ensure that data sharding actually helps, rather than hinders, the scalability of your application. New SaaS startups rarely ...

Cloud-native is becoming the trend, and for databases, Kubernetes is the environment provider, and now Apache ShardingSphere provides a solution for putting a monolithic database on Kubernetes Apache ...

ScaleArc is acquiring ScaleBase in an effort to enhance its database load balancing solutions with sharding technology. “Sharding is the ability to segment out data into separate database clusters ...