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

Requirements and Pain Points
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.. table:: **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                |
   +---------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------+

Core Advantages
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.. table:: **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                                |
   +----------------------+------------------------------------------------------+

Customer Benefits
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-  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