Summary

You have now gained a full picture of Apache ShardingSphere's features, how they are built into the system, and their use cases.

This chapter's takeaways, coupled with the knowledge that you have cumulated so far thanks to the previous three chapters, will have given you a better understanding of the architecture and the features that you can choose from. You are probably already thinking about the possible deployment options that are at your disposal and how they could help you solve your pain points.

You are now missing the last piece of the puzzle: understanding the clients that make up ShardingSphere and their deployment architectures. These are Proxy, JDBC, and hybrid deployment.

In the next chapter, we will introduce you to ShardingSphere-Proxy and ShardingSphere-JDBC deployments, along with their concurrent deployment thanks to a hybrid architecture.