# Relational Database Sharding & Partitioning Strategies > Author: Yari Staff (Data Engineering) | Published: Sep 05, 2026 | Read Time: 12 min read | Canonical URL: https://yariinfotech.com/insights/database-sharding-and-partitioning ## Abstract Scaling transactional databases to billions of rows without sacrificing ACID guarantees or query performance. ## Topics - PostgreSQL - Database - Backend ## Publisher Published by Yari Infotech Editorial & Engineering (https://yariinfotech.com).