PGSQL Phriday 011 - Partitioning vs Sharding in PostgreSQL
For this month’s PGSQL Phriday blogging challenge, Tomasz Gintowt asks if people rather use partitioning or sharding to solve business problems. Big Data: Partitioning vs Sharding Adjust Here at Adjust we use both. We also have quite a few databases of all sizes. Let’s look at some examples. We leverage four primary database systems, termed as “Backends”, “Shards”, “Bagger” and “Tracker”. The Backend systems function as intermediate storage of data, anything between hours and weeks....