Technical requirements

No hands-on experience in a specific language is required, but it would be beneficial if you have some experience in Java as ShardingSphere is coded in Java.

To run the practical examples in this chapter, you will need the following tools:

• A 2 cores 4 GB machine with Unix or Windows OS: ShardingSphere can be launched on most OSs.
• JRE or JDK 8+: This is the basic environment for all Java applications.
• Text editor (not mandatory): You can use Vim or VS Code to modify the YAML configuration files.
• A MySQL/PG client: You can use the default CLI or other SQL clients such as Navicat or DataGrip to execute SQL queries.
• 7-Zip or tar command: You can use these tools for Linux or macOS to decompress the proxy artifact.
• Performance testing tools as mentioned throughout this chapter.

  You can find the complete code file here:

  https://github.com/PacktPublishing/A-Definitive-Guide-to-Apache-ShardingSphere