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Distribute index across nodes for scale. Document-based sharding: each shard holds complete documents. Query hits all shards, coordinator merges results.
Term-based sharding: each shard holds specific terms. Query routes to relevant shards only. More efficient but harder to rebalance. Most systems use document-based with configurable shard count.
