MongoDBhard

Replica sets vs sharding in MongoDB?

Answer

Replica sets provide high availability: one primary replicates to secondaries with automatic failover. Sharding provides horizontal scaling: data is partitioned across shards by a shard key and routed via mongos. You often use both together.

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