cross-shard query

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Splitting the LedgerSystem Design

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• consistent hashingscheme where adding a shard moves only a small slice of keys, not all of them
• hot shardone overloaded slice
• reshardingchange shard count, re-file data
• shardone slice of the split data
• shard key (partition key)the field that picks the slice