Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the pluggable architecture of Apache ShardingSphere and started exploring the features that make up this architecture. By exploring features such as distributed databases, data sharding, SQL optimization, and elastic scaling, you now understand the component-based nature of Apache ShardingSphere.
This project was built to provide you with any feature you may need, without imposing features on you that you may not need, thus giving you the power to build a ShardingSphere. You are now gaining the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions about which features to include in your version.
Since this chapter focused on the main features that will be necessary to build your distributed database and perform data sharding, in the next chapter, we will introduce the remaining major features that make up Apache ShardingSphere.
