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You don't really want to get into the alternatives. It's pretty common to shard everything but the core user data (email, PBKDF2, username) and scale that with
by coolsunglasses 14y ago
You don't really want to get into the alternatives. It's pretty common to shard everything but the core user data (email, PBKDF2, username) and scale that with slaves and vertical upgrades. SSDs can take you a long way if you're fastidious about offloading everything else off the machine responsible for keeping user accounts consistent.
The alternatives aren't nice.
- aespinoza 14y agoI agree. Usually it is better to scale vertically on the user data. Even if it seems painful. The alternatives like partitioning are not really that easy either. There is pain involved as well. I think, of the existing solutions, one is not better than the other. The choice in the end is which one fits best with your team and infrastructure, and specially which disadvantages are you willing to put up with.