# MySQL scaling horizontal and vertical
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-scaling-horizontal-and-vertical/6613
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions
**Created:** [October 4, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-scaling-horizontal-and-vertical/6613 "2018-10-04T12:20:43Z")
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### Author:  [@shrenikp7](https://forums.percona.com/u/shrenikp7)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-scaling-horizontal-and-vertical/6613/1 "2018-10-04T12:20:43Z")
Hell Everyone,
Good morning, how are you? I am wondering if someone can share options available to scale MySQL database horizontally and vertically for ETL load. I am searching for an options to shard table horizontally, each shards can be stored on different host, even though application can see all host as one host.
Thanks
Shrenik
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### Author:  [@przemek](https://forums.percona.com/u/przemek)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mysql-scaling-horizontal-and-vertical/6613/2 "2018-10-14T06:43:15Z")
Hello,
This is to broad topic I am afraid for a forum. In general, MySQL does not have built-in sharding functionality, but you may implement such using many of the available solutions or implement your own logic. Let me share some links which may help you:
[url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/01/30/mysql-sharding-models-for-saas-applications/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/01/30/mysql-sharding-models-for-saas-applications/%5B/url%5D)
[url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/08/06/why-you-dont-want-to-shard/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2009/08/06/why-you-dont-want-to-shard/%5B/url%5D)
[url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/29/scaling-io-bound-workloads-mysql-cloud/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/29/scaling-io-bound-workloads-mysql-cloud/%5B/url%5D)
[url][https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/08/30/mysql-sharding-with-proxysql/[/url]](https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/08/30/mysql-sharding-with-proxysql/%5B/url%5D)
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