Alibaba Cloud announces open source PolarDB database to promote cloud native database 2.0 ecology

At the 2021 Alibaba Cloud Summit on May 29, Li Feifei, the head of Alibaba Cloud database business, gave a keynote speech on "Cloud Native Database 2.0: One-stop Data Management and Service", and finally released the Alibaba Cloud database open source. The plan is to work with the open source community to build a cloud-native distributed database ecosystem.

PolarDB is a self-developed database product family developed by Alibaba Cloud. It adopts the separation of storage and computing, and the integrated design of software and hardware. It not only has the low-cost advantage of distributed design, but also has centralized ease of use, which can meet the needs of large-scale application scenarios. The computing power can be expanded to more than 1000 cores, the storage capacity can be up to 100TB, and the single database of the cluster version can be expanded to 16 nodes at most, and the performance is 6 times higher than that of MySQL. PolarDB series products have been supporting Tmall Double 11 stably for many years, and the processing peak is up to a record 140 million times per second.

The open source version of PolarDB for PostgreSQL this time is the distributed version of PolarDB for PostgreSQL, which includes the database kernel, related plug-ins, tool scripts, test cases, and design documents, which is suitable for core business scenarios of medium and large enterprises. This open source complies with the Apache Version 2.0 protocol and is open sourced in a mode of full sharing and respect for the original author's copyright. The code can be modified and republished.

Alibaba Cloud, as a domestic cloud-native database technology leader, has become the first open source cloud-native database organization, giving back to the industry and the majority of technology enthusiasts.

• In 2021, the open source enterprise-level distributed database PolarDB for PostgreSQL will be the first step to release the Paxos high-availability cluster version in June, the HLC high-scalability distributed version in September, and the Sharding and plug-in versions in March next year.
• In 2021, the open source cloud native MySQL database ApsaraDB GalaxySQL will be released in October based on the Paxos highly available cluster version, and the cloud native distributed version will be released in June 2022.

The GitHub address of PolarDB for PostgreSQL, interested students can follow.

https://github.com/alibaba/PolarDB-for-PostgreSQL