# Percona Xtradb Cluster and sharding **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.x\ **Created:** [June 30, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-xtradb-cluster-and-sharding/3577 "2014-06-30T05:39:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mircea0210](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mircea0210](https://forums.percona.com/u/mircea0210)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-xtradb-cluster-and-sharding/3577/1 "2014-06-30T05:39:50Z")
Hello everyone. I could not find a topic with the same or with a similar subject, so I would like to start one. I have a Percona Xtradb Cluster with 3 nodes. Data is replicated on each 3 of them, but my database is excpexted to grow pretty fast. Is there any way to use sharding with Percona Xtradb Cluster or any other proper solution for large database (of course, I would like to be still able to user Percona Xtradb Cluster)? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![wdeviers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8797f3/32.png) [@wdeviers](https://forums.percona.com/u/wdeviers)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-xtradb-cluster-and-sharding/3577/2 "2014-07-03T12:32:34Z")
Sharding wouldn’t be something that you’d solve with PXC or anything based on Galera. At least natively. You need to either build sharding logic into your application, or try shard-aware proxy applications like ScaleArc or Tesora. The only difference would be that each shard is actually a Percona cluster instead of a single instance of MySQL. ---
**Author:** ![mircea0210](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@mircea0210](https://forums.percona.com/u/mircea0210)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-xtradb-cluster-and-sharding/3577/3 "2014-07-18T14:15:07Z")
Thanks a lot for the suggested tools … I was expecting something like this, but I wanted to be sure… Thanks again