> You will either shard functionally (extracting complete tables to other database servers) This isn't sharding. This is vertical partitioning. Sharding is a t

> You will either shard functionally (extracting complete tables to other database servers) This isn't sharding. This is vertical partitioning. Sharding is a type of horizontal partitioning. Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture...