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Choosing a Shard Key

February 16th, 2018 | 2:39

This video explains how to choose a shard key for your sharded cluster, with an explanation of when the default shard key is sufficient and when unique constraints and cosharded joins may affect what shard key should be used.

Tags: cosharded joins, horizontal scaling, intersystems iris, joined tables, rowid, scalability, shard data server, shard key, sharded cluster, sharding, unique constraints

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