Hibernate Shards for multi DB servers?

[Anthony Vierra]

I'm trying to figure out if hibernate shards is a solution to our dilemma.

We are currently limited to 1TB for our DB servers. We are currently planning to use one server to store login data with pointers to user specific data in X other DB servers.

Would Hibernate shards be the solution, or should we be looking elsewhere?

If this turns out to be a JDBC topic instead of Hibernate Shards ORM, please move it. Thanks for the help.