Sharding with Hibernate

As I’ve pointed out before, sharding isn’t for everyone, but it’s one way that relational systems can meet the demands of huge data. For some shops, sharding means being able to keep a trusted database like MySQL in place without sacrificing data scalability or system performance. In this installment of the Java development 2.0 series, dubbed “Sharding with Hibernate Shards” find out when sharding works, and when it doesn’t, and then get your hands busy sharding a simple Hibernate & Spring application capable of handling terabytes of data.