I can't find a reference to it, but I recall one of the developers mentioning that the current multi-db support lays the ground work necessary for sharding. I

I can't find a reference to it, but I recall one of the developers mentioning that the current multi-db support lays the ground work necessary for sharding. I would bet that once 1.2 is released at least several reusable apps pop up that implement various sharding/partitioning strategies.