____________ embodies the “share-nothing” architecture and essentially involves breaking a large database
into several smaller databases. Common ways to split a database include 1) splitting tables that are not joined
in the same query onto different hosts or 2) duplicating a table across multiple hosts and then using a hashing
algorithm to determine which host receives a given update.
A.
Sharding
B.
Failure recovery
C.
Federation
D.
DDL operations
A Sharding
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