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Shardman is a PostgreSQL-based distributed database management system (DBMS) that implements sharding. Sharding is a database design principle where rows of a table are held separately in different databases that are potentially managed by different DBMS instances. The main purpose of Shardman is to make querying sharded distributed databases efficient and ease the complexity of managing them.
This chapter provides an introduction to the Shardman distributed DBMS.