Showing posts with label Sharding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sharding. Show all posts

Monday, April 10, 2017

Sharding implementation in SQL Server

Sharding is a data partitioning technique which is popular in NoSQL databases like MongoDB and Cassandra. You can scale out the data set horizontally using sharding. SQL Server does not support sharding natively, however, you can implement sharding solution in SQL Server from application end. Below article describes sharding patterns that you can implement with SQL Server databases.

How to interpret Disk Latency

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