I've been working with a programming language called Erlang for about two years now, and their RAM based database called Mnesia almost forces you into this 'sharding' style.
In Erlang you also get the ability to have the same database on multiple computers or fragment the database into different servers that hold only a certain piece.
It certainly was a trick to unlearn normalization techniques I had been using for years, but once you get he hang of it the data really becomes or efficient.
In Erlang you also get the ability to have the same database on multiple computers or fragment the database into different servers that hold only a certain piece.
It certainly was a trick to unlearn normalization techniques I had been using for years, but once you get he hang of it the data really becomes or efficient.