Alternate strategy for database sharding

Friday, March 20, 2009 at 11:14AM
itsfrosty in Database, sharding, user rank

An alternate strategy for database sharding which avoids queries across different shards and merging results. A central repository of data is maintained for some tables along with other shards. Can be used in calculating top users, recent users, most read etc.

Article originally appeared on (http://highscalability.com/).