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…

Why learn ShardingSphere’s SPI? You might already be familiar with Java and Dubbo’s SPI (Service Provider Interface) mechanism, so you may wonder “why would I learn about ShardingSphere’s SPI mechanism?” The reasons are quite simple: ShardingSphere’s source code is simpler and easier to adapt. The execution of ShardingSphere’s SPI mechanism is quite smooth, with…

To further understand application scenarios, and enterprises’ needs, and improve dev teams’ understanding of Apache ShardingSphere, our community launched the “Enterprise Visits” series. Apache ShardingSphere’s core contributor team was invited to the headquarters of Bilibili in Shanghai. Our PMC Chair, Zhang Liang, discussed with Bilibili’s tech team the e-commerce and…

Why do we need to format code? Simply put, it’s to make code easier to read, understand, and modify. As a Top-Level Apache open source project, ShardingSphere has 400 contributors as of today. Since most developers do not have the same coding style, it is not easy to standardize the…

In March 2018, an article titled Service Mesh is the broad trend, what about Database Mesh?, was pubslished on InfoQ China and went viral in the technical community. In this article, Zhang Liang, the founder of Apache ShardingSphere, described Database Mesh concept along with the idea of Service Mesh. Four…

Originally posted on the Amazon AWS official blog 1. Introduction Amazon Aurora is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by AWS(Amazon Web Services). Aurora gives you the performance and availability of commercial-grade databases with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. In terms of high performance, Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL have shown…

Originally posted on the Amazon AWS official blog 1. Introduction Amazon Aurora is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by AWS(Amazon Web Services). Aurora gives you the performance and availability of commercial-grade databases with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. …

Since Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0-Beta version included DistSQL, it made the project increasingly loved by developers and Ops teams for its advantages such as dynamic effects, no restart, and elegant syntax close to standard SQL. With upgrades to 5.0.0 and 5.1.0, the ShardingSphere community has once again added abundant syntax to…