Sharding vs. Partitioning: When Definitions Got Sliced and Fractured
Social media replies insisting that partitioning stays on one server while sharding spans many nodes sent me on quest through vendor docs, and decades of dat...
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2026
“Clustered Index” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means (And That’s Alright!)
A book club argument over Kleppmann and Riccomini’s DDIA sent me chasing down why “clustering index” and “clustered index” mean two different physical struct...