During the course last week Christian already mentioned the upcoming ‘Horizontal Partitioning’ extension for Hibernate. What he didn’t mention was that it would be donated by Google!
Yesterday the Hibernate site displayed a new toplevel module called Shards. Shards offers critical data clustering and support for horizontal partitioning (also called sharding) to Hibernate. Cool… what does it do?
Now, customers can keep their data in more than one relational database for whatever reason-too much data or to isolate certain datasets, for instance-without added complexity when building and managing applications. Hibernate Shards is designed to encapsulate and reduce the complexity of building applications that work with sharded datasets.
Ah, support for distributing data across different databases. Since there is no production release of it yet it is probably not ready for real use; but I’d really like to try this…!!
Oh, and… thanks Google!