Sharding in ChicagoBoss

ChicagoBoss provides "vertical sharding" out of the box: each model can be stored in a different database or db_adapter. Sample boss.config where models wiki and author are stored in MySQL and all other models will be using mock db_adapter:

[{boss, [
{applications, [cb_tutorial]},
{db_host, "localhost"},
{db_port, 1978},
{db_adapter, mock},
{log_dir, "log"},
{server, mochiweb},
{port, 8001},
{session_adapter, mock},
{session_key, "_boss_session"},
{session_exp_time, 525600},
{db_shards, [
[
{db_host, "localhost"},
{db_adapter, mysql},
{db_port, 3306},
{db_username, "root"},
{db_password, "password"},
{db_database, "wiki"},
{db_shard_id, first_shard},
{db_shard_models, [wiki, author]}
]
]}
]}].

Note: db_shard_id tuple is required for mysql db_adapter because of the way mysql db_adapter included with CB creates connection pools. Think of it as a connection pool name. DBIdentifier in source code. Sharding examples are endless: you can persist models of click-stream data to Riak, store content of pages in PostgreSQL, store some logs in Archive type of MySQL database and so on, all based on one configuration file.