Database Sharding Blog

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Database Sharding and the End of RAID

Kevin Burton is predicting that RAIDs will be a ‘thing of the past‘ due to a combination of commodity hardware, open source databases like MySQL, and database sharding.

As well as citing Google, the most famous user of database shards, Burton also mentions some famous Web sites (LiveJournal, Flickr, Facebook) that have used MySQL database shards.

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