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Software problems tend to evolve over time into philosophy problems, a point that's come up in a few Diff pieces, like the Antithesis writeup and Asana's ontology-as-a-service ($). In this particular category, it's the philosophy of work and vocation: a bond trader, accountant, or social media manager doesn't necessarily have to spend much time... See more
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Database Partitioning is when you split the data inside the database into smaller "databases". One partition holds a part of your data. All partitions together form the entire database.
Partitioning is often used with replication, which means each partition's data is copied onto multiple nodes. This way, even though each record is in only one partition, it can be stored on different nodes for fault tolerance. A node may hold more than one partition.
When using a leader-follower replication model, the mix of partitioning and replication might look like this:
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In Elasticsearch, these partitions are known as shards . Each node of the Elasticsearch cluster can serve queries independently for the partition it manages, thereby increasing query throughput.
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