What is sharding?

Опубликовано: 23 Апрель 2026
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Curious about what database sharding is? Sharding is one of the most popular topics among those looking to increase performance and optimize larger amounts of data.

In this short video we will answer the following questions:

what is sharding?
why is sharding beneficial?
how does sharding work?
how does sharding work within Dgraph?

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Dgraph is an open source, fast, feature rich and horizontally scalable graph database. It's designed from ground up to run for web-scale, and achieve high throughput and low latency for arbitrarily complex queries in real world cluster.

Written entirely in Go, it embraces simplicity and robustness. It provides a very readable and powerful query language derived from GraphQL: https://docs.dgraph.io/query-language/.

For more, check out Dgraph website: https://dgraph.io.