Recommended distributed database solution
Standalone storage and query performance bottlenecks often occur in traditional relational databases. To solve these problems, Apache ShardingSphere proposes a lightweight distributed database solution and also achieves enhanced features such as data sharding, distributed transaction, and elastic scaling, based on the storage and computing capabilities of relational databases.
With the help of Apache ShardingSphere technologies, enterprises don't need to bear the technical risks brought by replacing storage engines. On the premise that their original relational databases are stable, enterprises can still have the scalability of distributed databases.
The architecture of the distributed database solution contains five core functions, as follows:
- Sharding
- Read/write splitting
- Distributed transactions
- High availability
- Elastic scaling
You can see these core functions in Figure 11.1:
