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I think this is a re-invention of relatively well-known ways of optimizing databases. still interesting to read about however.
by patrickg-zill 19y ago
I think this is a re-invention of relatively well-known ways of optimizing databases. still interesting to read about however.
- nostrademons 19y agoIt used to be called horizontal partitioning before Google started using the sharding term with Google Filesystem. It's been around for a while. The new part seems to be notion of pushing it down into the application code instead of paying Oracle or IBM a few million dollars for a DBMS that handles it automatically.