Relationship · Vulnerable To
Source: Workload·Target: Failure Mode
Summary
Analytics-heavy workloads that require aggregate queries across all shards are particularly vulnerable to cross-shard query degradation as shard count grows.
Evidence
- ·cross_shard_query_degradation's primary trigger is analytics/reporting queries without a shard-key predicate (failure_modes/cross_shard_query_degradation.yaml)
- ·analytics_heavy scans gigabytes per query for aggregations/joins and recommends sharding, creating the fan-out layout (workloads/analytics_heavy.yaml)
Evidence grounding
Grounded, 2 supporting itemsAnalytics aggregate/scan queries omit any single shard key - the scatter-gather fan-out trigger.