Plugin platform introduction and SPI

Apache ShardingSphere is designed based on a pluggable architecture, where the system provides a variety of plugins that you can choose from to customize your unique system.

The pluggable architecture makes Apache ShardingSphere extremely scalable, allowing you to extend the system based on extension points without changing the core code, making it a developer-oriented design architecture. Developers can easily participate in code development without worrying about the impact on other modules, which also stimulates the open source community and ensures high-quality project development.

The pluggable architecture of Apache ShardingSphere

Apache ShardingSphere is highly scalable through its SPI mechanism, which allows many functional implementations to be loaded into the system. SPI is an API provided by Java, to be implemented or extended by third parties, allowing you to replace and extend Apache ShardingSphere's features in the SPI...