The Elastic DBMS Blog

Last week, I was at Percona Live in San Francisco. One of the things that struck me was the number of sessions devoted to “sharding” at this event and other similar events. By my count, there were 7 sessions with sharding in their name and others that discussed it as part of broader scalability topics. Database scalability is clearly a big problem. While many people are proud of their sharding implementations, let’s face it; Sharding Sucks! [...]