As mentioned in previous posts, I have some use cases for MonetDB, which act on tables with a billion rows. MonetDB works fast and stable on straight SELECT statements or aggregates on single tables Problems occured when doing big joins, which should produce a result set of 30 rows only, but running hours before failing. SELECT tbl1.*, tbl2.* FROM tbl1, tbl2 WHERE tbl1.xid = tbl2.xid AND tbl1.pk = 12345678 (same behavior, if written with JOIN explicitly) So I am wondering, if I can help MonetDB with partitioning or sharding. Asked already here: https://www.monetdb.org/pipermail/developers-list/2014-October/004325.html What is the state regarding manual partitioning? During last weeks I saw significant acceleration with sharding on other DBMS. Is there anybody, who can give some introduction or share experiences with sharding on MonetDB? 3rd party tools? What ist the maximum number of tables within a MonetDB database? What is the estimated overhead of a single table, multiplied a million times? Thank you Robert