Cutting-edge sharing｜Alibaba Cloud database solutions senior expert Li Shengtao: Cloud native database solutions accelerate the localization of enterprises

Introduction to This content is for the 2021 Cloud Home Conference-Enterprise Cloud Native Database Best Practice Forum, Alibaba Cloud database solutions senior expert Li Shengtao shared on "cloud native database solutions to accelerate enterprise localization upgrades".

This article explains from several perspectives how cloud-native databases accelerate the localization upgrade of enterprises.

1. The big picture of the product

1) Scene perspective

Cloud computing: The core essence is the decoupling of resource pooling, including the separation of storage from computing, which has been used on a large scale today, the separation of CPU and Memory in computing, and the further decoupling of storage and network.

Cloud Native: Represents an architecture that can bring out the capabilities of resource pooling.

Cloud database brings value to enterprises in the process of upgrading and transforming enterprise system architecture. The upper part is to look at the specific products of Alibaba Cloud database from the scene perspective, and the lower part is the product of Alibaba Cloud database in the full life cycle of data, including data production, integration, processing, analysis and discovery, development management, and mapping to Tool platforms such as TP products, AP products and services. In the enterprise, Alibaba Cloud database can cover the full life cycle management of data, and support the digital transformation of government and enterprise financial customers, including today's localization, relocation, multiple activities in different places, data center, and financial risk control.

2) Technical perspective

The left side of the above figure is the basic technical capabilities provided by cloud vendors and cloud database products, and the right side is the business scenario covering government, enterprise and financial customers. Alibaba Cloud Database provides one-stop support for government, enterprise and financial customers from the core technology to cloud native to cloud services.

2. Cloud Native Database 2.0: One-stop full-link data management and service

One-stop full-link data management and service 2.0 covers the entire data assets, database design, development, integration, and database services, provides full lifecycle management of data, and supports open source, Alibaba Cloud self-developed, and commercial database engines.

3. Self-developed database ecology covering the entire process of data production, processing and consumption

The above pattern examples are the ecological conditions of our self-developed database. The technical examples and technical influence have won many domestic and international awards.

4. Cloud database platform construction solution-to achieve smooth business system migration to the cloud, "good cloud, good use of the cloud"

How to make the database of traditional IDC government, enterprise and financial customers go to the cloud smoothly and enjoy the technical bonus of cloud database? The cloud database platform construction solution provides enterprises with smooth cloud services, enabling customers to enjoy a rich and powerful cloud database engine, one-stop management services, and customers get out-of-the-box, flexible on-demand, feature-rich, and powerful Technical value. In the government, retail, gaming, entertainment, transportation and logistics industries, it has achieved a wealth of successful customer cases. In this process, customers are most concerned about whether the process of migration to the cloud is smooth and whether the cloud-native system requires a large-scale transformation of the original system. For these problems, we provide a pre-assessment tool in the data migration process, which can analyze the characteristics of the original database used in the business. After scanning, compare with the target cloud database, pre-evaluate the compatibility of database functions, field types, stored procedures, etc., as well as how to modify and evaluate the workload, so that customers can know what they are doing. In addition, the effect can be obtained in a short time. After the business switch, the rich database products provide multi-mode database capabilities.

Five, self-developed cloud database products-to solve the needs of all industries to use domestic core technology in the whole link

Alibaba Cloud's self-developed database product is an enterprise-level database that has undergone the largest-scale practice of public cloud and the largest-scale practice of Alibaba's own business. Support customers' complex and rich diversified business scenarios. Good results have been achieved in the government, energy, finance, and operator industries. Alibaba Cloud Database not only achieves localization of database software, but also fully supports full-site localization from server chips to operating systems. Meet the demands of national technology for autonomous control, help enterprise systems to achieve high compatibility and smooth migration, and support rich business scenarios and challenges. At the same time, as a large cloud vendor, Alibaba Cloud's long-term investment in localization technology will fundamentally solve the risk of customer outage of localization technology.

Today, everyone is embracing open source. What kind of open source is truly meaningful open source? Open source is not just to open up the code, but also to have a prosperous open source ecosystem, and more importantly, to have big players. Otherwise, with millions of lines of source code, after the top players quit, the entire open source will shrink rapidly. For the enterprise, it will lose technical support and face the risk of having to re-choose a technical route. This kind of lifeless open source is not Significant open source. Today's MySQL open source ecosystem includes many large open source companies such as Ali, Tencent, and Huawei. I think this open source ecosystem is prosperous and supportive. All companies in this ecosystem can obtain long-term technical support.

6. Data Center Solution-"Digital Transformation" Data Driven Business Innovation

Important indicators that test the company’s digital capabilities include the real-time performance of data and the cost of data usage. From production to analysis and then to guide production of business data, how short this loop determines the real-time performance and whether data usage can be delivered to the front-line business. Xiao Er also helps Xiao Er quickly verify various business models that determine how much data value we can play. Only by assigning the ability to use data to people who are aware of the data can the value of data be brought into play. Whether it can quickly return to the model analysis conclusions and keep trial and error correcting the data model is the test of the company's ability to use data. Now Ali provides the ability of low-threshold unified storage and fusion analysis, which can return hundreds of billions of data in milliseconds. The next problem facing massive data is low-cost storage. Hot data uses ESSD, colder data uses OSS, and then cold data uses OAS, and then cold data can be stored in devices that are not powered on. The data tiered storage solution solves the problem of low-cost storage of massive data.

The data middle-office solution helps customers in the financial, e-commerce, digital entertainment and logistics industries to give full play to the value of data in the process of landing.

7. Case:

1) Insurance industry: database migration and replacement project

Today's insurance industry is no longer so traditional, and many Internet-based services have been introduced, such as helping everyone to exercise together through APP, signing online orders during the epidemic period, buying insurance online, online training on insurance knowledge, and so on. With the development of business, the insurance industry has gradually migrated from the traditional IDC computer room to the cloud. There are three demands behind the insurance industry's use of cloud database products:

• Achieve large data concentration and flexible storage space
• Get rid of dependence on foreign database vendors and reduce software licensing fees
• Quickly realize localization and realize independent and controllable technology

After the customer uses the Polar DB solution, the customer has also obtained clear results:

• The replacement of the core system has been realized, and the localization can be controlled independently.
• The processing power is improved, and the flexibility of Polar DB provides a good support for the business.
• The complete management and control platform, monitoring system, kernel, and cloud R&D support personnel respond in real time, greatly improving the efficiency of operation and maintenance.

2) Tax industry: data center database solutions

During the evolution of the tax management system, customers challenged our products:

• Stability requirements and complex national-level applications affect the interests of every tax filer and involve the national economy and people's livelihood.
• High-performance demands require business response speeds within seconds to support national tax authorities in real-time inquiry and analysis, and management of various tax businesses.

2. Program advantages:

• Provide 9999 stability guarantee through mature cloud database products and disaster tolerance architecture
• Through the powerful analysis engine product, it realizes the query ability of interactive analysis, helps tax managers to analyze data quickly, and conducts tick analysis on a real-time white screen interface.
• Unified data security management and hierarchical storage of hot and cold data to solve cost and security issues.

3) Operator industry: real-time data warehouse solutions

After decades of IT system construction, several major operators have already possessed a sound operation and management mechanism. However, with the development of their services, operators have put forward two typical demands:

1. Strongly want to get rid of foreign traditional structures.

2. Give full play to the value of data and directly empower front-line personnel to help achieve business growth.

Alibaba Cloud solution:

• It helps operators realize the core advantages of real-time expansion and contraction and flexibility of nationally produced links.
• Multi-tenant technology solves the problem of data isolation for provincial and municipal companies.
• Open up the card points of the data path, which can cover more than 26 data source types.
• Through low-cost storage and use, reduce the cost of operators in the process of use.

8. Deeply cultivate the needs of enterprise-level customers and provide general solutions

With the rapid development of enterprise business, the demand for business innovation and breakthroughs has become stronger and stronger. Alibaba Cloud database has become a good option for everyone. Here are some more general scenarios and corresponding products for everyone to work in the future. refer to:

• Cloudification + independent and controllable demands: public cloud—MyBase hybrid cloud—DBStack.
• Data seamless flow, data online application and development appeal: online data asset management platform-data transmission.
• Data security requirements: data desensitization, encryption, and multi-party secure computing.
• Intelligent + cloud native operation and maintenance requirements: AI4DB-K8S + containerized deployment cloud native DBPaaS + DAS; DB4AI-unstructured data processing.
• The demands of an open ecosystem: RDS, PolarDB, AnalyticDB, Tair open source ecological community leadership, and the development of a developer ecosystem.
• Cloud native + distributed + enterprise-level capabilities: Cost reduction and efficiency enhancement requirements: Serverless, multi-tenant, shared memory, Multi-Master, resource isolation.
• Xinchuang + localization requirements: Oracle data migration, traditional data warehouse upgrade requirements (PolarDB+DTS+ADAM+AnalyticDB joint solution).
• User experience + stability requirements: Open API, Terraform, documentation, console optimization, backup to the cloud, SLA upgrade, etc.

9. Cloud-native distributed database, creating a model in the industry

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