Arana is a Cloud Native Database Proxy. It can be deployed as a Database mesh sidecar. It provides transparent data access capabilities, when using Arana, user doesn't need to care about the sharding details of database, they can use it just like a single MySQL database.

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First, Arana is a Cloud Native Database Proxy. It provides transparent data access capabilities, when using Arana, user doesn't need to care about the sharding details of database, they can use it just like a single MySQL database. Arana also provide abilities of Multi Tenant, Distributed transaction, Shadow database, SQL Audit , Data encrypt / decrypt and so on. Through simple config, user can use these abilities provided by Arana directly.

Second, Arana can also be deployed as a Database mesh sidecar. As a Database mesh sidecar, arana switches data access from client mode to proxy mode, which greatly optimizes the startup speed of applications. It provides the ability to manage database traffic, it takes up very little container resources, doesn't affect the performance of application services in the container， but provides all the capabilities of proxy.

Please reference this link Getting Started

arana start -c ${configFilePath}

• Go 1.20+
• MySQL Server 5.7+

• TiDB - The SQL parser used

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