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Step by step guide for MongoDB 4.0 Sharded Cluster Setup on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – Part 4
The standalone MongoDB installation is not always sufficient for large scale application having extremely high user and data volume. In order to support high volume use cases MongoDB has a concept called SHARD. Today we will learn how to setup MongoDB 4.0 Sharded cluster. Before going to the setup let’s look into the hardware system requirements to setup a shard.