Partitioning

• https://devopedia.org/database-sharding#qst-ans-1

• Splitting the database into parts

• All partitions of a table reside on the same server

• Partitions can be horizontal (split by rows) or vertical (by columns).

• horizontal partitioning (split along rows) is called sharding

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20771435/database-sharding-vs-partitioning