ShardingSphere-Proxy is a transparent database proxy compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, working as a distributed database server to provide data sharding, distributed transactions, read/write splitting, HA, query federation features, and more.

1. Transparent to applications, it can be used directly as MySQL/PostgreSQL.
2. Compatible with MySQL-based databases, such as MariaDB, and PostgreSQL-based databases, such as openGauss.
3. Applicable to any client compatible with MySQL/PostgreSQL protocol, such as MySQL Command Client, MySQL Workbench, etc.

1. Data sharding - provides a distributed database solution that can scale computing and storage horizontally
   
   
2. Distributed transaction - guarantees the HA of your distributed database cluster with Operator on Kubernetes, and the native HA of your existing data sources.
   
   
3. Read/write splitting -provides a complete, transparent, secure, and low-cost data encryption solution.
   
   
4. High availability.
   
   
5. Data migration.
   
   
6. Query federation.
   
   
7. Data encryption.
   
   
8. Shadow database.