DbShards Part Deux - The Internals

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This is a follow up article by Cory Isaacson to the first article on DbShards, Product: dbShards - Share Nothing. Shard Everything, describing some of the details about how DbShards works on the inside.

The dbShards architecture is a true “shared nothing” implementation of Database Sharding. The high-level view of dbShards is shown here:

The above diagram shows how dbShards works for achieving massive database scalability across multiple database servers, using native DBMS engines and our dbShards components. The important components are:

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