Does anyone have a good recommendation for a book which teaches sharding?

Does anyone have a good recommendation for a book which teaches db sharding (from scratch at best)

I have read like 40 different websites talking about sharding.

I'm not saying online sites/blogs are lousy, they are good titbits. However, I need the main meal not just a it of useful info here and there. Basically, I have an idea (I guess) of how to implement sharding but, since it's a terribly complicated concept, I believe there is much, much, much more to it that can be studied on.

A great place to start is the book High Performance MySQL : Optimizations, Backups, Replication and More. Chapter 9 (pages 409 - 456) of the book is entitled "Scaling and High Availability"

There are the subheadings

• Scaling MySQL

• Planning for Scability

• Buying Time Before Scaling

• Scaling Up

• Scaling Out

• Functional partitioning

• Data Sharding

• Choosing a partitioning key

• Multiple partitioning keys

• Querying across shards

• Allocating data, shards and node

• Arranging shards on node

• Fixed allocation

• Mixing Dynamic and Fixed Allocation

• Explicit Allocation

• Rebalancing Shards

• Generating globally unique IDS

• Tools for sharding

• Scaling Back

• Scaling by Cluster

• Load Balancing

• Connecting Directly

and two dozen other subheadings

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#4013, answer score: 5