Gaea
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The facts
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What it does
- Compatibility limit
- For sharded tables, the project describes itself as lightweight and says it does not rewrite SQL semantics or calculate concatenated results from multiple result sets.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Configuration
- Gaea supports file and etcd configuration; the documentation says file mode does not support hot reload and etcd is the only supported configuration center.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The quick start says Gaea is written in Go and can be compiled into gaea and gaea-cc executables for local use.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project documentation names etcd for configuration and Grafana for monitoring dashboards.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The README says Gaea is used across mobile, automotive, ecosystem-chain, finance, and internet businesses.checked 9 Oct 2026
- License
- The GitHub repository identifies the project as licensed under Apache-2.0.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- Its monitoring documentation describes Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards for proxy and tenant metrics.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Multi-tenancy
- Its listed basic features include multiple clusters and multiple tenants.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Gaea is a MySQL protocol database middleware and proxy developed by Xiaomi’s B2C development team.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Proxy features
- Listed features include multi-cluster and multi-tenant support, transparent SQL forwarding, connection pooling, and configuration hot reload.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- It supports database and table sharding, SQL routing, and read/write separation.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- Documented controls include client and backend user credentials, read-only and read/write permissions, IP allowlists, and optional encryption of sensitive namespace data.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Sharding
- Gaea supports database and table sharding, SQL routing, and read/write separation.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Sharding compatibility
- Its sharding approach supports Mycat database sharding and Kingshard table sharding, with aggregation functions and certain joins across shards.checked 9 Oct 2026
- SQL controls
- Gaea supports slow and error SQL fingerprints, custom SQL interception and filtering, and IP or CIDR allowlists.checked 9 Oct 2026
- SQL handling
- It supports transparent SQL forwarding, annotation-based routing, slow and error SQL fingerprints, and custom SQL interception and filtering.checked 9 Oct 2026
- SQL limitations
- For sharded tables, the compatibility guide says cross-shard joins, multi-shard batch inserts, and INSERT INTO SELECT are unsupported.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Traffic management
- It supports read/write separation with replica load balancing, connection pooling, and configuration hot reloading.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Transaction limitation
- Gaea supports single-shard transactions but has not implemented distributed transactions; cross-shard transactions return an error.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The repository says Gaea is developed by Xiaomi’s B2C development team.checked 9 Oct 2026
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