As a follower of the Database Plus development concept, ShardingSphere has successfully passed production environment tests across multiple industries and gained popularity among community enthusiasts. As Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, the cloud-native concept has gone viral in the tech world. Apache ShardingSphere, as a…

Background — Ever since the release of ShardingSphere 5.0.0, DistSQL has been providing strong dynamic management capabilities to the ShardingSphere ecosystem. Thanks to DistSQL, users have been empowered to do the following: Create logical databases online. Dynamically configure rules (i.e. sharding, data encryption, read/write splitting, database discovery, shadow DB, and global rules). …

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The Apache ShardingSphere v5.1.2 update introduces three new features, one of which allows using the ShardingSphere-Proxy chart to rapidly deploy a set of ShardingSphere-Proxy clusters in a cloud environment. This post takes a closer look at this feature. Background and Pain Points In a cloud-native environment, an application can be deployed in batches in…

ShardingSphere-Proxy, positioned as a transparent database proxy, is one of Apache ShardingSphere’s access points. ShardingSphere-Proxy implements a database protocol that can be accessed by any client using or compatible with MySQL / PostgreSQL / openGauss protocols. The advantage of ShardingSphere-Proxy over ShardingSphere-JDBC is the support for heterogeneous languages and the…

Background ShardingSphereDataSourceFactory is the most basic user API of Apache ShardingSphere-JDBC, and it is used to transform users' rule configuration objects and generate the standard implementation of the DataSource. It also provides YamlShardingSphereDataSourceFactory for YAML configuration, as well as the custom namespace for the Spring and Spring Boot Starter. DataSource is…

Some time ago, SphereEx, a startup formed by Apache ShardingSphere’s core contributor team, officially launched the Database Mesh 2.0 concept and its associated open source solution “Pisanix”, sparking discussion and reflection in the community about ShardingSphere and Database Mesh. Some community users might be wondering why would you go through…

Following the release of Apache ShardingSphere 5.1.1, our community integrated 1,028 PRs from contributors all over the world to bring you the latest 5.1.2 version. The new version includes a lot of improvements in terms of functions, performance, tests, documentation, examples, etc. Standout new features include: ShardingSphere-Proxy Helm Chart. SQL…

Apache ShardingSphere helps Dangdang rebuild its customer system with 350 million users, and seamlessly transition from a PHP+SQL Server technology stack to a Java+ShardingSphere+MySQL stack. The performance, availability, and maintainability of its customer system have been significantly improved, which is the best practice of ShardingSphere’s heterogeneous migration. Dangdang’s customer system Dangdang’s customer system…