ShardingSphere-Sidecar (TODO) defines itself as a cloud native database agent of the Kubernetes environment, in charge of all the access to the database in the form of sidecar.
It provides a mesh layer interacting with the database, we call this as Database Mesh.
| ShardingSphere-JDBC | ShardingSphere-Proxy | ShardingSphere-Sidecar | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Database | Any | MySQL/PostgreSQL | MySQL |
| Connections Count Cost | High | Low | High |
| Supported Languages | Java Only | Any | Any |
| Performance | Low loss | Relatively High loss | Low loss |
| Decentralization | Yes | No | Yes |
| Static Entry | No | Yes | No |
The advantage of ShardingSphere-Sidecar lies in its cloud native support for Kubernetes and Mesos.