Database Partitioning: PostgreSQL and MongoDB

Diana Hsieh
Learning with Diagrams
2 min readJan 7, 2018

As GDPR comes into focus in the upcoming year, there has been talk in the database world of how partitioning can provide DBAs with more control over where their data lives. Partitioning is a fundamental building block that enables several interesting use cases that expand beyond just GDPR compliance. Here is a brief overview of the different solutions PostgreSQL and MongoDB offer.

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