Database Sharding & Indexing - How Big Apps Scale Their Data (System Design #10)
When your database has 500 million rows, queries don't just slow down - they can grind your entire app to a halt. Here's how the biggest systems solve it.
When your database has 500 million rows, queries don’t just slow down - they can grind your entire app to a halt. Here’s how the biggest systems solve it.
What’s in the video (8m 46s)
- 0:00 — Database Partitioning and Indexing
- 0:36 — The Database Bottlenecks
- 1:36 — What is Database Partitioning?
- 2:30 — What is Horizontal Partitioning?
- 4:05 — What is Vertical Partitioning?
- 5:06 — Horizontal Partitioning vs Vertical Partitioning
- 5:29 — Database Indexing
- 7:22 — Common Challenges of Database Partitioning
Resources
- Full System Design series: YouTube playlist
- Previous episode: https://youtu.be/vosF_JpTV2I
- Next episode: https://youtu.be/xoh6jYqPdek
For more in this series, visit the #system-design tag page or jump to the channel uploads list for everything else.
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