Help Center/ Distributed Database Middleware/ User Guide/ Function Overview
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Function Overview

Distributed Database Middleware (DDM) is a MySQL-compatible, distributed middleware service designed for relational databases. It can resolve distributed scaling issues to break through capacity and performance bottlenecks of MySQL databases, helping handle highly concurrent access to massive volumes of data.

Table 1 lists the functions supported by DDM.

Table 1 DDM functions

Category

Function

Permissions

Creating a user and granting the user permissions to use DDM and DDM custom policies. For details, see Permissions Management.

Instances

Creating, deleting, renewing, unsubscribing from, and restarting a DDM instance, and changing class of a DDM instance. For details, see Instance Management.

Backups

Restoring data to a new DDM instance and restoring metadata For details, see Backups and Restorations.

Parameter templates

Creating, editing, replicating, and applying a parameter template, and comparing two parameter templates. For details, see Parameter Template Management.

Task center

Enabling you to view progress and statuses of asynchronous tasks submitted on the console. For details, see Task Center.

Schemas

Creating, exporting, importing, and deleting schemas. For details, see Schema Management.

Flexible shards configuration for a schema

You can increase shards or data nodes to scale out storage. For details, see Shard Configuration.

Accounts

Creating, modifying, and deleting a DDM account, and resetting its password. For details, see Account Management.

Data migration

Migrating data from Huawei Cloud and a third-party cloud to DDM or exporting data from DDM. For details, see Data Migration.

Monitoring

Providing metrics and methods of viewing metrics. For details, see Monitoring Management.

SQL syntax

Describing DDL, DML, global sequence, SQL statements, and sharding algorithms. For details, see SQL Syntax.