Chapter 6: ShardingSphere-Proxy Installation and Startup

Unlike ShardingSphere-JDBC, ShardingSphere-Proxy provides a proxy service requiring independent deployment. ShardingSphere-Proxy is based on database protocols that allow users to perform operations on distributed databases in the same way as operating centralized databases – they can connect database terminals, third-party clients, or any other JDBC-supporting application to ShardingSphere-Proxy.

Now that you have reached this point of the book, you should be feeling confident in your understanding of Apache ShardingSphere and wondering how to start using it. This chapter will guide you through your first steps in installing and setting up ShardingSphere and, ultimately, getting it up and running.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

• Introduction to Distributed SQL
• Configuration

The first section will get you started at the beginning of the process, by showing...