GaussDB(for MySQL) is an enterprise-class cloud database that uses a decoupled compute and storage architecture.

**Table 1** Requirements and pain points
Requirements and Pain Points	Description
MySQL compatibility	No need to reconstruct original MySQL applications
Mass storage	Large data storage capacity for Internet services
Distributed scalability	Automatic sharding or non-sharding with no impact on services
Strong-consistency transactions	Strong consistency of distributed transactions
High availability	Multi-AZ high availability and multi-region disaster recovery
High concurrency	High performance in high concurrency scenarios

**Table 2** Core advantages
Advantage	Description
Superior performance	Million-level QPS
High scalability	1 write and 15 read-only nodes; 128 TB storage space
High reliability	Cross-AZ deployment and three data copies
High compatibility	Compatible with MySQL

Mass storage with 128 TB capacity and no sharding required
Easy-to-use, fully compatible with MySQL, and no application reconstruction required.
Elastic scalability with 15 read replicas and read/write splitting
Multi-AZ deployment, remote disaster recovery, and high reliability

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