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		londons_explore on May 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PostgreSQL 11 Partitioning Improvements Bigtable does it. [1] . Spanner does it [2]. [1]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c..., Section 5, "and also splits tablets that have grown too large" [2]: https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-..., Section 1, "it automatically migrates data across machines (even across datacenters) to balance load"

tmd83 on May 21, 2018 [–]

Those are distributed databases and have completely different characteristics. That's an interesting nice feature to have but no traditional RDBMS supports anything close I presume.

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