--- title: 100X Scaling: How Figma Scaled its Databases | daily.dev description: Figma, a collaborative design platform, successfully scaled its databases to keep up with increasing demand. They implemented vertical partitioning and logical... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/100x-scaling-how-figma-scaled-its-databases-ho0z8xl9a twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 100X Scaling: How Figma Scaled its Databases | daily.dev og:description: Figma, a collaborative design platform, successfully scaled its databases to keep up with increasing demand. They implemented vertical partitioning and logical... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/100x-scaling-how-figma-scaled-its-databases-ho0z8xl9a og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HO0z8xL9a.png og:image:alt: 100X Scaling: How Figma Scaled its Databases og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 100X Scaling: How Figma Scaled its Databases **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 10 min read · 58 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Figma, a collaborative design platform, successfully scaled its databases to keep up with increasing demand. They implemented vertical partitioning and logical sharding to address scalability issues. Additionally, Figma explored alternative solutions but ultimately chose to build a horizontally sharded solution on top of their existing infrastructure. Their unique sharding implementation included the use of colocations, logical and physical sharding, a query engine, and a shadow application readiness framework. Figma aims to horizontally shard every table in their database for near-infinite scalability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#figma](https://daily.dev/tags/figma) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/100x-scaling-how-figma-scaled-its-databases-ho0z8xl9a) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"100X Scaling: How Figma Scaled its Databases","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/100x-scaling-how-figma-scaled-its-databases-ho0z8xl9a","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/100x-scaling-how-figma-scaled-its-databases-ho0z8xl9a"},"datePublished":"2024-05-07T15:35:06.513Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"Figma, a collaborative design platform, successfully scaled its databases to keep up with increasing demand. They implemented vertical partitioning and logical...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/519ca6b5c8213f9af98fd9527d9a8ad7?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/519ca6b5c8213f9af98fd9527d9a8ad7?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"ByteByteGo","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ByteByteGo","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/35be29234ee14d01a9cd049c52e12753","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/100x-scaling-how-figma-scaled-its-databases-ho0z8xl9a","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":58},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"backend,figma","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ByteByteGo","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"100X Scaling: How Figma Scaled its Databases"}]} ```