Sharding
AssessTechniques
A data-partitioning technique that splits a database across multiple machines.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 42%.
Evidence (2)
- 8Hacker News·9/10/2026product_launchPlanetScale launches Neki, a sharded Postgres system
PlanetScale introduced Neki, a sharded Postgres offering designed to scale beyond a single machine. The system targets very high throughput and large data volumes, with claims of hundreds of millions of QPS and petabyte-scale storage.
- 5InfoQ·7/17/2026researchUber's Zone-Failure-Resilient OpenSearch Clusters
Uber described how it keeps OpenSearch clusters available during a zone outage. The approach combines OpenSearch shard allocation with Uber's isolation-group design on the Odin container orchestration platform to preserve both search queries and data ingestion.