Topic outline

• Introduction to Sharding in InterSystems IRIS

  Introduction to Sharding in InterSystems IRIS

  Content Type
  Course

  Duration
  20m

  Level
  Introductory

  Learn about sharding and how to use this horizontal scalability feature of InterSystems IRIS® data platform to improve system performance.

  Learning Objectives

  • Explain what sharding is and when it is useful.
  • Determine whether or not a table should be sharded.

  
  

  Prerequisites

  • None

  
  
  
• Start the Course

  Start the Course

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• What's Next?

  What's Next?

  You have learned about sharding and potential benefits for your application. The partitioning of database tables through sharding is not beneficial for every workload, but it is especially useful for systems that have large datasets or high-volume, high-speed data ingestion. It is also useful for systems with a large volume of complex queries doing a lot of data processing, especially those with a high ratio of data read to results returned.

  Continue learning with the following content:

  • See options for scaling in InterSystems IRIS (video, 4m).
  • Learn how to plan and deploy a sharded cluster (online course, 45m).
  • Access the full guide to scalability in InterSystems IRIS (documentation).
  • Find out how to deploy a sharded cluster (documentation, 20m).

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