Sharding and partitioning

3 methods in the atlas attack this one problem. They are rivals: each wins something the others do not.

Phrasings that mean this problem

Horizontal scalingDynamic sharding

distributed-databases

ShardingHash partitioningcanondistributed-databases
ShardingRange partitioningstandarddistributed-databases
Range split-mergeLoad-based rebalancingspecialistdistributed-databases