--- title: What Is a Distributed Database? | daily.dev description: A distributed database or data management system is spread over several sites with no physical parts. Distributed databases can be used for horizontal... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-distributed-database--bnhffseoi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Is a Distributed Database? | daily.dev og:description: A distributed database or data management system is spread over several sites with no physical parts. Distributed databases can be used for horizontal... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-distributed-database--bnhffseoi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BnhfFseOI.png og:image:alt: What Is a Distributed Database? 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. # What Is a Distributed Database? **[DZone](https://daily.dev/sources/dz)** · 5 min read · 7 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A distributed database or data management system is spread over several sites with no physical parts. Distributed databases can be used for horizontal scalability and satisfying load needs without changing the database. The essential advantages spread databases bring to the game are improved performance, massive scalability, and round-the-clock dependability. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#harperdb](https://daily.dev/tags/harperdb) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-distributed-database--bnhffseoi) ```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":"What Is a Distributed Database?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-distributed-database--bnhffseoi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-distributed-database--bnhffseoi"},"datePublished":"2022-09-06T13:06:40.893Z","dateModified":"2022-09-06T13:06:40.892Z","description":"A distributed database or data management system is spread over several sites with no physical parts. Distributed databases can be used for horizontal...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4a50c3957cf3547ea1d4b7c50dd6959a","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4a50c3957cf3547ea1d4b7c50dd6959a","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DZone","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":"DZone","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/dz","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/dz"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-a-distributed-database--bnhffseoi","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":7},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"database,harperdb","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DZone","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dz"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What Is a Distributed Database?"}]} ```