Sharding Support

[Michael S. Moody]

Dear Orchid Team,

Would it be possible to have a "sharding"/db partitioning framework
built into Orchid? For instance, an abstraction layer that allows you
to retrieve data very simply using objects, but in the background
talks to a "pointer database" which then lets the application know
which "real" database server the information is on? Unfortunately, to
this point, most sharding implementations are homegrown/rollyourown,
but to have an established framework would allow for enhanced
scalability.

Orchid appears to be very feature rich, and built in sharding/
partitioning support would enable load balanced, scalable, highly
available applications to be quickly developed.

Thanks,
Michael