Essay #70: An Introduction to Data Partitioning
Partitioning plays a vital role in scaling a database beyond a certain scale of reads and writes. In this essay, we take a detailed look into Partitioning basics and understand how it can help us scale our Reads and Writes beyond a single machine.
In this quick 4 minute read, we go through the following points
- What is data partitioning? - Why do we need to partition the data? - How Data Partitioning helps in scaling reads and writes? - How Data Partitioning helps in improving availability? - Skim through Horizontal and Vertical Data Partitioning
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