Hibernate Sharding

Article Link: www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-javadev2-11/index.html

Hibernate has a sub-project called Hibernate Shards that allows large datasets to be sharded to multiple databases.

Cross-shard joins will be a problem. So this needs to be taken into consideration before deciding to use this solution.

Project home page: www.hibernate.org/subprojects/shards.html