What is shardingsphere built with?

Q: Which repos have a stack like shardingsphere's?

The ones that share most of its stack: Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF, spring-projects/spring-boot, and infiniflow/ragflow.

shardingsphere is a Java repo built with JetBrains, polyglot, and tomcat-embed-core. It stores its data in Postgres, com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine, MySQL, etcd, and org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper, reaches it with jakarta.persistence-api, makes its content with org.apache.commons:commons-csv and org.freemarker:freemarker, validates its data with jakarta.validation-api, is tested with junit-bom, junit-jupiter-engine, mockito-inline, org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api, org.hamcrest:hamcrest, and 5 more, deploys with commons-logging, io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-exporter-otlp, jul-to-slf4j, Prometheus, ch.qos.logback:logback-classic, and 3 more, and uses ClickHouse, com.mysql:mysql-connector-j, curator-recipes, H2 Database, jakarta.jms-api, and 7 more. It has 841,860 written lines, with 4,621 test files.

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Backend

Data 17

Postgres29 files · database/protocol/dialect/postgresql/src/main/java/org/apache/shardingsphere/database/protocol/postgresql/packet/command/query/extended/bind/protocol/PostgreSQLDateBinaryProtocolValue.java, line 22
MySQL4 files · kernel/data-pipeline/scenario/cdc/client/pom.xml, line 1
Redis3 files · kernel/global-clock/type/tso/provider/redis/src/main/java/org/apache/shardingsphere/globalclock/type/tso/provider/redis/RedisTSOProvider.java, line 22
etcd2 files
ClickHouse
com.mysql:mysql-connector-j
H2 Database
MariaDB
org.apache.commons:commons-pool2
PostgreSQL
com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine12 files
org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper2 files

5 more

com.zaxxer:HikariCP1 file
curator-recipes
jakarta.jms-api
jedis
mssql-jdbc

Data access 1

jakarta.persistence-api

Support

The base 3

JetBrains
polyglot
tomcat-embed-core

Content 2

org.apache.commons:commons-csv1 file
org.freemarker:freemarker1 file

Validation 1

jakarta.validation-api

Testing 10

org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api2,835 files
org.hamcrest:hamcrest2,558 files
org.mockito:mockito-core1,605 files
org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params526 files
org.mockito:mockito-junit-jupiter449 files
org.awaitility:awaitility46 files
org.apache.curator:curator-test4 files
junit-bom
junit-jupiter-engine
mockito-inline

Deploy 8

OpenTelemetry3 files
io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-sdk1 file
io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
Prometheus
ch.qos.logback:logback-classic27 files
org.slf4j:slf4j-api3 files
commons-logging
jul-to-slf4j

Tools 7

Google3 files
org.projectlombok:lombok2,725 files
org.antlr:antlr4-runtime112 files
org.checkerframework:checker-qual3 files
asm
checkstyle
jsr305

Other 29

Apache1 file
com.google.guava:guava
org.apache.httpcomponents.core5:httpcore5-h2
io.netty:netty-buffer41 files
org.apache.commons:commons-lang318 files
io.netty:netty-handler15 files
net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy15 files
org.yaml:snakeyaml11 files
com.fasterxml.jackson:jackson-bom8 files
com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr3102 files
com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind1 file
bcpkix-jdk18on

17 more

bctls-jdk18on
byte-buddy-agent
commons-codec
commons-io
httpcore
httpcore5
jackson-datatype-jdk8
json-path
json-smart
netty-bom
netty-codec
netty-tcnative-boringssl-static
netty-transport
netty-transport-native-epoll
okhttp-bom
okhttp-jvm
quartz

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Frequently asked questions

What language is shardingsphere written in?

shardingsphere is written in Java, with 841,860 written lines.

What framework does shardingsphere use?

shardingsphere is built with JetBrains, polyglot, and tomcat-embed-core.

What database does shardingsphere use?

shardingsphere stores its data in Postgres, com.github.ben-manes.caffeine:caffeine, MySQL, etcd, and org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper and reaches it with jakarta.persistence-api.

The proof: database/protocol/dialect/postgresql/src/main/java/org/apache/shardingsphere/database/protocol/postgresql/packet/command/query/extended/bind/protocol/PostgreSQLDateBinaryProtocolValue.java, line 22

What services does shardingsphere use?

shardingsphere uses ClickHouse, com.mysql:mysql-connector-j, curator-recipes, H2 Database, jakarta.jms-api, jedis, MariaDB, mssql-jdbc, org.apache.commons:commons-pool2, PostgreSQL, Redis, and com.zaxxer:HikariCP.

Does shardingsphere have tests?

Yes. shardingsphere has 4,621 test files and is tested with junit-bom, junit-jupiter-engine, mockito-inline, org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api, org.hamcrest:hamcrest, org.mockito:mockito-core, org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params, org.mockito:mockito-junit-jupiter, org.awaitility:awaitility, and org.apache.curator:curator-test.

Which repos have a stack like shardingsphere's?

The ones that share most of its stack:Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF spring-projects/spring-boot infiniflow/ragflow