Solving database pain points with Database Plus

The kernel design concept of Apache ShardingSphere is Database Plus. The database industry has been expanding rapidly over the last few years, with new players and new solutions being offered with the intent to solve the increasingly widening gap created by the development of internet-related industries.

Some notable examples include MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Apache Hive, and Presto. Their popularity shows us that database fragmentation is an increasingly widespread issue in the database industry, and the relatively recent pouring of venture-capital support has only exacerbated its growth and development. According to DB-Engines (https://db-engines.com/en/), there are more than 350 databases ranked, with many more that didn't even make the list. According to Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU's) Database of Databases (https://dbdb.io/), there currently are 792 different noteworthy database management systems (DBMSs).

Such...