sharding, partitioning and replication are often confused in system design, but they…
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sharding, partitioning and replication are often confused in system design, but they solve different problems partitioning: splits a large table into smaller parts to improve query performance and data management sharding: distributes those partitions across multiple servers to scale storage and write capacity replication: maintains copies of data across multiple servers to improve availability and read scalability simple way to remember: partitioning = split data sharding = distribute data replication = copy data understanding when to use each one is an important part of designing sca
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