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-Apache ShardingSphere is a distributed SQL transaction & query engine for data sharding, scaling, encryption, and more - on any database. Our community's guiding development concept is Database Plus for creating a complete ecosystem that allows you to transform any database into a distributed database system.
+Apache ShardingSphere is a distributed SQL transaction & query engine that allows for data sharding, scaling, encryption, and more - on any database. Our community's guiding development concept is Database Plus for creating a complete ecosystem that allows you to transform any database into a distributed database system.
It focuses on repurposing existing databases, by placing a standardized upper layer above existing and fragmented databases, rather than creating a new database.
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Apache ShardingSphere includes 2 independent products: JDBC & Proxy.
-They all provide functions of data scale-out, distributed transaction and distributed governance, applicable in a variety of situations such as Java isomorphism, heterogeneous language and Cloud-Native.
+They all provide functions of data scale-out, distributed transaction and distributed governance, applicable in a variety of situations such as Java-based isomorphism, heterogeneous language and Cloud-Native.
### ShardingSphere-JDBC
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[](https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/shardingsphere/5.3.2/apache-shardingsphere-5.3.2-shardingsphere-proxy-bin.tar.gz)
[](https://store.docker.com/community/images/apache/shardingsphere-proxy)
-A transparent database proxy, providing a database server that encapsulates database binary protocol to support heterogeneous languages.
+A transparent database proxy, providing a database server that encapsulates the database binary protocol to support heterogeneous languages.
Friendlier to DBAs, the MySQL and PostgreSQL version now provided can use any kind of terminal.
:link: For more details, follow this [link to the official website](https://shardingsphere.apache.org/document/current/en/overview/#shardingsphere-proxy).
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ShardingSphere-JDBC adopts a decentralized architecture, applicable to high-performance light-weight OLTP applications developed with Java.
-ShardingSphere-Proxy provides static entry and all languages support, suitable for OLAP application and sharding databases management and operation.
+ShardingSphere-Proxy provides static entry and all languages support, suitable for an OLAP application and sharding databases management and operation.
-Through the mixed use of ShardingSphere-JDBC & ShardingSphere-Proxy together with a unified sharding strategy by the same registry center, the ShardingSphere ecosystem can build an application system suitable to all kinds of scenarios.
+Through the combination of ShardingSphere-JDBC & ShardingSphere-Proxy together with a unified sharding strategy by the same registry center, the ShardingSphere ecosystem can build an application system suitable to all kinds of scenarios.
:link: More details can be found following this [link to the official website](https://shardingsphere.apache.org/document/current/en/overview/#hybrid-architecture).