Distributed SQL Sharding: How Many Tablets, and at What Size?
The first answer to this question is the usual “it depends“. The second answer, thanks to YugabyteDB’s auto-splitting feature and distributed SQL sharding principles, is “don’t worry, this is managed automatically.”
However, it’s still important to understand how sharding works, how to handle corner cases correctly, and how to split tablets to save resources.
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