Scale Cheaply - Sharding (codebetter.com)
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SQL_Menace(4890) 3 years, 10 months ago
There are a lot of expensive ways to scale your database – all of which are highly touted by the big three database vendors because, well, they want to sell you all types of really expensive stuff. Despite what an “engagement consultant” might tell you though, most of the high-traffic websites on the web (google, digg, facebook) rely on far cheaper and better strategies: the core of which is called sharding.
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