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Shard Key
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Shard Key Considerations
  • • Shard key is immutable
  • • Shard key values are immutable
  • • Shard key requires index on fields contained in key
  • • Uniqueness of _id field is only guaranteed within individual shard
  • • Shard key limited to 512 bytes in size