Implementations of the present application provide a partition splitting method. Data files in a target source partition are divided into at least two data groups. A first data group from the at least two data groups is selected as a target splitting data group. A first splitting step is performed on the target splitting data group, including: splitting the target splitting data group into a plurality of data sub-groups based on a predetermined splitting rule, wherein each data sub-group of the plurality of data sub-groups corresponds to a new partition of at least two new partitions for the target source partition, and assigning each data sub-group to the new partition corresponding to the data sub-group. A second data group from the at least two data groups is selected as the target splitting data group, wherein the second data group is different from the first data group.