Scaling¶
Covers Database Federation, Partitioning and Sharding, and Replication.
Topics¶
| Topic | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Database Federation | Split a database by function (orders, users, inventory) rather than by key range — each service gets its own database. Solves a different… |
| Partitioning and Sharding | Split one logical dataset across multiple physical nodes so no single machine has to store or serve all of it. The mechanism that lets a… |
| Replication | Keep copies of the same data on multiple nodes so the system survives a node failure and can serve more read traffic than one machine could… |