consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility. From Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_(computing)]
a database table are held separately, rather than splitting by columns (which is what normalization and vertical partitioning do, to differing extents). Each partition forms part of a shard, which may in turn be located on a separate database server or physical location.
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