# Database Federation

Federation (or functional partitioning) splits up databases by function. The federation architecture makes several distinct physical databases appear as one logical database to end-users.

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- [@article@Database Federation](https://dev.to/karanpratapsingh/system-design-the-complete-course-10fo#database-federation)
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