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Sharding: A Deep Dive into Horizontal Partitioning
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What is the primary objective of sharding in a distributed database system?
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To improve data locality and reduce network traffic
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Sharding aims to distribute data across multiple physical or logical partitions, known as shards, to improve data locality and reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred over the network.