Different Partitioning Strategies in Databases
Learn about different partitioning strategies in the database.
This section will discuss two strategies to partition the dataset in a distributed environment:
Partition by a key range
Partition by key hash
Partition by a key range
In this strategy, we divide a continuous range of keys into buckets. Then, we assign each bucket to a partition. A single host instance can hold multiple partitions. The range of keys assigned to a bucket may or may not be continuous. Within each partition, they store keys in sorted order, thus facilitating range scan queries.
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