The notion of sharding has become increasingly crucial for selecting and optimizing database architectures. In many cases, sharding is a means of horizontally distributing data; if properly ...

The concept of database sharding has gained popularity over the past several years due to the enormous growth in transaction volume and size of business-application databases. This is particularly ...

Early scaling decisions can come back to haunt you. Follow these tips to ensure that data sharding actually helps, rather than hinders, the scalability of your application. New SaaS startups rarely ...

CodeFutures Corporation has introduced the latest version of its dbShards, which provides cost-effective database scalability and performance using database sharding. The company also announced that ...

Blockchain technology has revolutionized how organizations store data and carry out distributed transactions. Even on public networks, blockchain can maintain secure, reliable and verifiable records ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

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Thieves can't take an enterprise's so-called data crown jewels if the crown and its jewels are stored in separate vaults. That's the logic behind startup Calamu Technologies and its Calamu Protect, a ...