Sharding is a way to split data in a distributed database system. Data in each shard does not have to share resources such as CPU or memory, and can be read or written in parallel. Figure 1 is an ...

“Most distributed databases for one or two ways to shard data; we support six,” he said. They include hash, range, list, two types of composite and custom shards.

Splitting large databases into separate entities for faster retrieval. Horizontal Partitioning and Sharding. Horizontal partitioning separates rows by key fields; for example, all Arizona records ...

Aerospike has announced version 8.0 of its distributed multi-modal database, bringing support for distributed ACID transactions. This enables large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applicati ...