Den 2012-03-27 14:26 skrev Alan McDonald s�h�r:

>
> > Is it possible via the api to shard a database ? I mean to split the
> database in several database (this we do manually), and call the SQL in
> parallele on each database and aggregate the data at the end (this
> throught
> the api) ?
> >
> > i can do it from the application but it's just few line of code and it's
> can add great feature to firebird !
> >
> Fascinating.... Pull it apart so you can put it together again....
>

Not so fast, Alan!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_%28database_architecture%29

This is a valid and useful technique where appropriate. Isn't this part
of how Google provides so fast search results? (Just think I read
something along those line somewhere...)

Kjell

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