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- A shard is a physical storage unit in Hologres, where data is stored and processed.
 - Shards are managed by pangu
 

Shard Allocation
- When a table is created, it is assigned to a table group, and data is distributed to specific shards.
 - Each shard has a unique ID within an instance.
 
Shard Count and Workers
- Shards are distributed across worker compute nodes for parallel processing.
 - The number of shards should be proportional to the number of workers to ensure balanced resource allocation.
 
Failover Handling
- If a worker fails, its shards are reallocated to healthy workers to maintain even distribution.