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In business, you have prospects, customers, and transactors. Each has different needs and expectations. Understanding these needs and expectations is vital to providing the best possible service. Prospects are people who your company has contacted, either through direct mailers, email campaigns, or with a cold call. They have shown an interest in your product or service. They are interested in learning more about what you have to offer.

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and performance for query and ingest workloads. In this post, I will introduce another common technique, partitioning, that provides further advantages in performance and management for a sharding database.