Chapter 8: Apache ShardingSphere Advanced Usage – Database Plus and Plugin Platform

This chapter will take your understanding of, and capability in leveraging, ShardingSphere to the next level. After covering the basic features and configurations, you will learn how to customize ShardingSphere according to your requirement, to get the most out of your system.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Plugin platform introduction and SPI
• User-defined functions and strategies – SQL parser, sharding, read/write splitting, and distributed transactions
• User-defined functions and strategies – data encryption, SQL authority, user authentication, SQL authority, shadow DB, and distributed governance
• ShardingSphere-Proxy – tuning properties and user scenarios

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to create, configure, and run a custom version of ShardingSphere for distributed transactions, read/write splitting, and...