I have been reading about scalable architectures recently. In that context, two words that keep on showing up with regards to databases are sharding and partitioning. I looked up descriptions but still ended up confused.
Could the experts at stackoverflow help me get the basics right?
- What is the difference between sharding and partitioning ?
- Is it true that ‘all sharded databases are essentially partitioned (over different nodes), but all partitioned databases are not necessarily sharded’ ?
