Global navigation across all site collections (SharePoint Foundation 2013)

Question

I am using SharePoint Foundation 2013. I would like to have multiple site collections in different content databases for performance, scalability, etc. I want to have the same global navigation across all site collections. I know this is trivial in paid versions, but my research hasn't been fruitful. Recommendations?

Answer 1

Use a Delegate control in your master page to deliver the navigation. Deploy it with a Feature to each site collection. Write the code in the control to deliver whatever you want, however you want. Use caching to maintain performance.

Easy, peasy.