Testing distributed database scenarios

In the context of fast-growing digital industries, enterprise data storage and transaction volume have grown rapidly as well. Traditional standalone databases find it increasingly difficult to support the surge in online access requests. To resolve this bottleneck, distributed databases are now becoming increasingly accepted by more and more enterprises as a worthy solution.

In this section, we will show how you can utilize ShardingSphere to distribute traditional standalone database traffic to multiple databases and provide more stable and reliable services.

The next section will help you get things started in testing your distributed scenario by giving you the tasks you should accomplish to prepare for the test.

Preparing to test your distributed system

To test a distributed scenario, you're required to install the following components:

Table 10.1

Let's first look at the ShardingSphere-Proxy adaptor...