Test driving the Spider storage engine - sharding for the massesData seem sometimes to have their own life and will, and they refuse to behave as we wish. Then, you need a firm hand to tame the wild data and turn them into quiet and obeying pets. At the MySQL Conference 2009 I attended a session about the Spider storage engine, an engine with built-in sharding features. The talk was notable for the speaker wearing a spiderman costume, and for some language bar
