SphereEx builds distributed data infrastructures while delivering a SaaS experience through the cloud, and was founded by the core team of Apache ShardingSphere - an open source ecosystem to transform any database into a distributed database system and enhance it with data sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features & more.Our pioneering "Database Plus" and "Database Mesh" concepts are designed to unlock innovative data usage concepts, improve enterprise data applications, and easily respond to complex data scenarios. Following over 5 years of development, the ShardingSphere project has gained more than 17 thousand GitStars on GitHub, involving over 450 contributors, becoming one of the most popular open source projects. In April 2020, ShardingSphere successfully graduated from the Apache Incubator, and became an Apache Software Foundation Top-Level Project. More recently, ShardingSphere has also been recognized as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Panorama project. To date, ShardingSphere has already been used in more than 170 enterprise and production environments covering the financial, logistics, O2O, internet & cloud computing fields, to help achieve enterprise digital transformation.