Partitions

A primer on database partitioning. Horizontal and Vertical partitioning plus the most common sharding strategies.

Hi Friends,

Welcome to the 42th edition of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter. This week we will talk about an important topic to scale any data intensive application: database partitioning.

The outline will be as follows:

• What is partitioning

• Vertical and Horizontal partitioning

• Horizontal Partitioning strategies

• Advantages and Disadvantages of partitioning

• I…