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ScaleArc is acquiring ScaleBase in an effort to enhance its database load balancing solutions with sharding technology. “Sharding is the ability to segment out data into separate database clusters ...

Oracle introduced the feature of database sharding in 12.2 and has since been refining it. Learn from Sridhar Avantsa, Rolta AdvizeX, about the general concepts of sharding as well as the concepts, ...

Oracle's Globally Distributed Autonomous Database caters to organizations with multinational operations and complex data-sovereignty needs. Oracle recently announced significant updates to its ...

Understanding your customer base and planning early are essential steps when designing a scalable, multi-tenant database architecture that balances cost, performance and isolation. Building and ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Early scaling decisions can come back to haunt you. Follow these tips to ensure that data sharding actually helps, rather than hinders, the scalability of your application. New SaaS startups rarely ...