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A Definitive Guide to Apache ShardingSphere: Transform any DBMS into a distributed database with sharding, scaling, encryption features, and more
Author(s): Trista Pan (Author), Zhang Liang (Author), Yacine Si Tayeb (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 22 July 2022
- Language: English
- Print length: 466 pages
- ISBN-10: 1803239425
- ISBN-13: 9781803239422
Book Description
Become well versed with all of ShardingSphere’s features for every data management need with this comprehensive guide put together by ShardingSphere’s founder and core contributors
Key Features
- Understand the core concepts and efficiently set up Apache ShardingSphere
- Enhance existing databases with sharding, elastic scaling, encryption, governance features, and more
- Import and customize the ecosystem’s core features for various application scenarios
Book Description
Apache ShardingSphere is a new open source ecosystem for distributed data infrastructures based on pluggability and cloud-native principles that helps enhance your database.
This book begins with a quick overview of the main challenges faced by database management systems (DBMSs) in production environments, followed by a brief introduction to the software’s kernel concept. After that, using real-world examples of distributed database solutions, elastic scaling, DistSQL, synthetic monitoring, database gateways, and SQL authority and user authentication, you’ll fully understand ShardingSphere’s architectural components, how they’re configured and can be plugged into your existing infrastructure, and how to manage your data and applications. You’ll also explore ShardingSphere-JDBC and ShardingSphere-Proxy, the ecosystem’s clients, and how they can work either concurrently or independently to address your needs. You’ll then learn how to customize the plugin platform to define personalized user strategies and manage multiple configurations seamlessly. Finally, the book enables you to get up and running with functional and performance tests for all scenarios.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy a customized version of ShardingSphere, addressing the key pain points encountered in your data management infrastructure.
What you will learn
- Assemble a custom solution using the software’s pluggable architecture
- Discover how to use Database Plus features effectively
- Understand the difference between ShardingSphere-JDBC and ShardingSphere-Proxy
- Get to grips with ShardingSphere’s pluggability mechanism
- Explore mainstream test models for databases and distributed databases
- Perform migrations from an on-premise database to a cloud-based database
- Reconfigure your data infrastructure and eliminate switching costs
Who this book is for
This book is for database administrators working with distributed database solutions who are looking to explore the capabilities of Apache ShardingSphere. DBAs looking for more capable, flexible, and cost-effective alternatives to the solutions they’re currently utilizing will also find this book helpful. To get started with this book, a basic understanding of, or even an interest in, databases, relational databases, SQL languages, cloud computing, and data management in general is needed.
Table of Contents
- The Evolution of DBMSs, DBAs, and the Role of Apache ShardingSphere
- Architectural Overview of Apache ShardingSphere
- Key Features and Use Cases – Your Distributed Database Essentials
- Key Features and Use Cases – Focusing on Performance and Security
- Exploring ShardingSphere Adaptors
- ShardingSphere-Proxy Installation and Startup
- ShardingSphere JDBC Installation and Start-Up
- Apache ShardingSphere Advanced Usage – Database Plus and Plugin Platform
- Baseline and Performance Test System Introduction
- Testing Frequently Encountered Application Scenarios
- Exploring the Best Use Cases for ShardingSphere
- Applying Theory to Practical Real-World Examples
- Appendix and the Evolution of the Apache ShardingSphere Open Source Community
Editorial Reviews
Review
“No company can afford to have its business growth limited by its system scalability. In my 30 years of practice, I have seen many examples of failure due to database limitations. This book introduces data sharding solutions to help DBAs who need to re-engineer or optimize their databases due to the horizontal scalability. A great resource for DBAs.”
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Chuck Chen, CTO, NetStars Inc, Japan
“When I first talked to Liang and Trista about ShardingSphere in the cloud, I was impressed by their intense passion and commitment to open source. ShardingSphere-Proxy is already well established and has been verified by a variety of production workloads and validated solutions. Its positioning also makes it easy to integrate ShardingSphere into current cloud-native databases.
In time, I realized that ShardingSphere is also a plugin platform providing on-demand database-related features, such as encryption. And its multi-tenant architecture design is a good fit for SaaS companies’ requirements for databases.
This book is beginner-friendly while remaining engaging to advanced developers. It can help you effectively learn about the Apache ShardingSphere ecosystem and solve a number of challenges that affect the database management systems of today.”
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DAI Wen, Head of Solutions Architecture, Greater China, Amazon Web Services
“If you are struggling to manage massive data from a DBA or developer perspective, this definitive guide to Apache ShardingSphere can help you. This book not only explains the problem that Apache ShardingSphere is dedicated to solving but also shows the technical detail and the real-world use cases with runnable examples. Finally, you can leverage the community support from Apache ShardingSphere to get the latest update, which is introduced in the Appendix of the book.”
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Willem Jiang, OpenSource Expert in Huawei, Board Director of Apache Software Foundation 2022
About the Author
Trista Pan is the co-founder and CTO of SphereEx, an Apache Member and Incubator Mentor, Apache ShardingSphere PMC, AWS Data Hero, China Mulan open source community mentor, and Tencent Cloud TVP. Trista used to be responsible for the design and development of the intelligent database platform of JD Digital Science and Technology. She now focuses on the distributed database and middleware ecosystem, and the open source community. She was the recipient of the 2020 China Open-Source Pioneer, 2021 OSCAR 2021 Top Open Source Pioneer, and 2021 CSDN IT Leading Personality awards. Her paper, Apache ShardingSphere: A Holistic and Pluggable Platform for Data Sharding, was published on ICDE in 2022.
Zhang Liang is the founder and CEO of SphereEx, an Apache Member, the founder of Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob, the PMC Chair, Tencent Cloud TVP, and Microsoft MVP. Zhang is an open source enthusiast and thought leader in Java-based distributed architectures. Currently, he focuses on turning Apache ShardingSphere into an industry-leading distributed database solution. His 2019 book, Future Architecture: From Service to Cloud Native, was well received by both critics and the community. His 2022 paper, Apache ShardingSphere: A Holistic and Pluggable Platform for Data Sharding, was published on ICDE. Zhang was awarded titles in the Top Ten Distributed Database Pioneers of 2021 by CSDN, and the 33 China Open Source Pioneers in 2021 by SegmentFault.
Yacine Si Tayeb, PhD, is the Head of International Operations at SphereEx and one of the core contributors and community builders at Apache ShardingSphere. Passionate about technology and innovation, Yacine moved to Beijing to pursue his PhD in enterprise management and was in awe of the local startup and tech scene. His career path and research have so far been shaped by opportunities at the intersection of technology and business. He is a published scholar, and his passion for technology led him to research the impact of corporate governance and financial performance on corporate innovation outcomes, and to take a keen interest in the development of the Apache ShardingSphere big data ecosystem and open source community building.
