Chapter 3. Install

Table of Contents

3.1. Install Shardman with single-node etcd cluster
3.1.1. Cluster configuration
3.1.2. Preparation
3.1.3. Deploy one-node etcd cluster
3.1.4. Deploy Shardman nodes
3.1.5. Shardman cluster initialization
3.1.6. Add nodes to Shardman cluster
3.1.7. Check Shardman cluster status
3.1.8. Connect to Shardman cluster
3.1.9. Create distributed tables
3.2. Install Shardman with three-node etcd cluster
3.2.1. Cluster configuration
3.2.2. Preparation
3.2.3. Deploy three-node etcd cluster
3.2.4. Deploy Shardman nodes
3.2.5. Shardman cluster initialization
3.2.6. Add nodes to Shardman cluster
3.2.7. Check Shardman cluster status
3.2.8. Connect to Shardman cluster
3.2.9. Create distributed tables

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 informantion how to install Shardman distributed DBMS.This chapter consists of two parts: how to install Shardman for test purposes with an etcd cluster consisting of one node and how to install Shardman with an etcd cluster consisting of three nodes (productive setup).

Currently Shardman packages are available for