Scaling throughput and performance in a sharding database system

Scaling throughput and performance are critical design topics for all distributed databases, and sharding is usually a part of the solution. However, a design that increases throughput does not always help with performance and vice versa. Even when a design supports both, scaling them up and down at the same time is not always easy.

This post will describe these two types of scaling for both query and ingest workloads, and discuss sharding techniques that make them elastic. Before we …

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