Database sharding across cluster in MonetDB

Hi all,

I am wondering if there are any plans to develop horizontal sharding support for MonetDB? There aren't really other open source databases out there that support horizontal sharding with anywhere close to the performance of MonetDB.

I realise there are a lot of challenges and scalability issues with a lot of typical DB operators, but for certain use cases that I have seen it could work really well, likely significantly faster than HBase/SparkSQL and it's rivals.

Does anyone else think this would be a desirable feature?

Best regards,

Alastair