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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 28/10/2025

#Sharding is (another) thing that makes @couchdb.bsky.social such a scalable distributed database 📐 Few DBs make it automatic & transparent as CouchDB. We cover: - what shards are - how #CouchDB uses them - performance gains and trade-offs in our new post: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/10...

In this diagram of a database sharded using consistent hashing, the database is represented by a large rectangle. It contains small squares representing individual documents from A to G with an ellipses indicating continuation. Below this are 4 smaller rectangles, representing a q value of 4. Each smaller rectangle contains two documents, and the row is not alphabetical.

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