Chapter 4: Key Features and Use Cases – Focusing on Performance and Security
The chapter you are about to undertake will further enhance your understanding of the ShardingSphere ecosystem and empower your decision-making to assemble your ideal database solution.
We are going to introduce you to the remaining major features of ShardingSphere, namely high availability, data encryption, and observability.
ShardingSphere is built with flexibility in mind, and the desire to empower you to build a solution that best works for you without imposing undesired bloatware on you. Our community has developed these features for those looking to improve and monitor performance as well as enhance their system's security.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding High Availability
- Introducing data encryption and decryption
- User authentication
- SQL authority
- Database and app online tracing
- Database gateway
- Distributed SQL ...
