Sharding - mmedrano9438/peripheral-brain GitHub Wiki

Sharding is a type of database partitioning that separates large databases into smaller, faster, more easily managed parts. The new tables are called “shards” (or partitions), and each new table either has the same schema but unique rows (as is the case for “horizontal sharding”) or has a schema that is a proper subset of the original table’s schema (as is the case for “vertical sharding”)