apache/shardingsphere

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Apache ShardingSphere is an enterprise distributed database ecosystem that turns heterogeneous databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) into a distributed SQL system with sharding, read-write splitting, encryption, and distributed transactions. It can be deployed as a JDBC driver, a proxy gateway, or embedded sidecar.

Use cases

• shard a large MySQL table across multiple database nodes
• add read-write splitting to scale database reads
• transparently encrypt sensitive database columns
• run distributed transactions across multiple databases
• put a SQL gateway in front of heterogeneous databases
• scale PostgreSQL horizontally without rewriting application SQL

When to choose

• you need horizontal database scaling via sharding without changing application code
• you want transparent data encryption or masking at the database layer
• you need read-write splitting or distributed transactions across existing MySQL/PostgreSQL instances

When to avoid

• your dataset fits comfortably in a single database instance
• you need a fully managed distributed SQL database rather than middleware over existing databases
• your stack is not JVM/SQL-based

Facets

framework · maturity stable

database database-driver security cryptography api-gateway microservices middleware databases microservices big-data security backend jvm cloud self-hosted cross-platform sharding read-write-splitting distributed-sql database-middleware data-encryption distributed-transactions database-gateway federation apache data-engineering docker kubernetes

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