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Re: Sharding destroys the goals of your relational database by patrickg-zill on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @11:07AM (#287124)
I really wonder, if MySQL had better write performance, would sharding be as much in vogue?
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Re: Sharding destroys the goals of your relational database by donal on Tuesday August 26, 2008 @12:33PM (#287227)
Interesting question, ultimately I think the answer is yes for three reasons.

1) Sharding helps with more than just performance issues.

2) Even the most efficient write performance would still bottleneck at a certain scale.

3) Everyone likes to think that they will reach the scale at which point that bottleneck occurs.

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