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To: TobagoJack who wrote (169918)	3/26/2021 9:19:44 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217615

DB sharding means that instead of having one giant database and processing all the data at one go, you split it into many databases, process each individually, then recombine the results. The advantage is scalability as you do parallel processing. The disadvantage is the complexity of recombining the distributed results in such a way that is identical to if you had processed them all as one. As I said, it is a common practice, but if they are touting it as a competitive advantage, then you need to know what is special about their implementation or is this just marketing hype.