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5 Sharding Data Models and Which Is Right
When it comes to scaling your database, there are challenges — but the good news is that you have options. The easiest option, of course, is to scale up your hardware. And when you hit the ceiling on scaling up, you have a few more choices: sharding, deleting swaths of data that you think you might not need in the future, or trying to shrink the problem with microservices.
Deleting portions of your data is simple — if you can afford to do it. Regarding sharding, there are a number of approaches, and which one is the right one depends on a number of factors. Here, we'll review a survey of five sharding approaches and dig into what factors guide you to each approach.
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