--- title: Sharding in Manticore Search: automatic distribution and... description: Manticore Search's automatic sharding feature (available since release 27.1.5) lets you split a table into physical shards with a single CREATE TABLE statement... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sharding-in-manticore-search-automatic-distribution-and-replication-nxpfeksdc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sharding in Manticore Search: automatic distribution and replication | daily.dev og:description: Manticore Search's automatic sharding feature (available since release 27.1.5) lets you split a table into physical shards with a single CREATE TABLE statement... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sharding-in-manticore-search-automatic-distribution-and-replication-nxpfeksdc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nXPfeKSdC.png og:image:alt: Sharding in Manticore Search: automatic distribution and replication 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. # Sharding in Manticore Search: automatic distribution and replication **[Manticore](https://daily.dev/sources/manticoresearch)** · 25 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Manticore Search's automatic sharding feature (available since release 27.1.5) lets you split a table into physical shards with a single CREATE TABLE statement using `shards='N' rf='M'` options. On a single node, sharding reduces write lock contention and keeps RAM chunks small, yielding ~1.5× insert throughput at 4–8 shards on a 16-core machine. Across a cluster, each shard is automatically replicated to `rf` nodes, and the elected master continuously monitors topology to restore the replication factor when nodes fail or join. Benchmarks show: binary log costs ~25% of write throughput, rf=2 replication costs ~30%, and multi-node sharding delivers ~1.6× read throughput over a single node for realistic full-text queries. Key limits include a 3000-shard maximum, rf must be specified, and rf>1 requires a cluster with at least that many nodes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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