Will EFCcore support sharding and table sharding in the future? Similar to Java's ShardingSphere

[softchar]

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[ajcvickers]

@softchar No support specific to EF Core is planned.

[Varorbc]

I really hope the plan supports this feature

[ajcvickers]

@softchar In your mind, what would sharding support in EF look like? What would it do?

[Varorbc]

https://github.com/dotnetcore/sharding-core

[roji]

@Varorbc and others, if what you're looking for is already implemented in sharding-core, then what's the reason for asking for this to be implemented inside EF? We very much believe that EF should be as extensible as possible, and that things that can be built outside of EF itself should be built as plugins/extensions. It is unfeasible for EF to have built-in support for everything.

[roji]

EF is more reassuring and the technical support is very good.

We have had many requests over the years, where a perfectly good plugin/extension exists, and yet people ask us to implement it in-the-box simply because "it's better inside EF". We generally say no to these; it's simply unfeasible for one product - and one team - to implement everything database-related that could be imagined, and where external plugins can exist which implement the functionality, that's the best possible situation in our view.

I'll keep this open in the backlog to track user interest and possibly discuss details, but overall I don't see us going in this direction unless specific, compelling reasons are brought forth as to why this needs to exist inside EF itself.