Which database sharding approach is best for your organization?

For your organization and business to grow, prevent downtime, and reduce latency, you must scale your resources accordingly. You can scale these resources through a combination of adjustments to network bandwidth, CPU and physical memory requirements, and hard disk adjustments. Both horizontal sharding and vertical sharding involve adding resources to your computing infrastructure; your business stakeholders must decide which is right for your organization.

The following sections explains the pros and cons of no-sharding vs sharding.

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