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title = "Configuration Manual"
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Configuration is the only module in ShardingSphere-Proxy that interacts with application developers, 
through which developer can quickly and clearly understand the functions provided by ShardingSphere-Proxy.

This chapter is a configuration manual for ShardingSphere-Proxy, which can also be referred to as a dictionary if necessary.

ShardingSphere-Proxy only provided YAML configuration. 
By configuration, application developers can flexibly use data sharding, replica query, data encryption, shadow database or the combination of them.

Rule configuration keeps consist with YAML configuration of ShardingSphere-JDBC.
