Distributed SQL
In ShardingSphere 4.x and earlier versions, just like other middleware, people needed to use configuration files to manage ShardingSphere to perform operations such as telling it which logic databases to create, how to split the data, which fields to encrypt, and more. Although most developers are accustomed to using configuration files as a tool to manage middleware, as the entrance to distributed databases, ShardingSphere also serves a large number of operations engineers and DBAs who are more familiar with SQL execution than editing configuration files.
The Database Plus concept is the impetus for Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0's new interactive language: Distributed SQL (DistSQL).
DistSQL is the built-in language of ShardingSphere that allows users to manage ShardingSphere and all rule configurations through a method that is similar to SQL. This is so that users can operate Apache ShardingSphere in the same way as SQL database operations.
DistSQL contains...
