Infrastructure · Data artifact

Replication and Sharding Configuration

Data artifactInfrastructureInfrastructurearc:ReplicationShardingConfig

A configuration declaring a vector collection's shard count, replication factor and cluster join list.

Responsibility. Specifies how collection data is partitioned and replicated across cluster nodes.

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configures structural

Design guidance

SHOULD use a replication factor of at least 2 on three or more nodes to tolerate single-node failure.

Sources

Ch6.2B: T. Nguyen, "Production Vector Database Deployment," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 6.2B. ISBN: 9798244538229.