Huang Dongxu was elected as executive member of CCF Database Professional Committee, Open Source Development Committee and Big Data Expert Committee

Recently, the CCF Database Professional Committee and the Big Data Expert Committee respectively announced the latest list of executive members. PingCAP co-founder and CTO Huang Dongxu was successfully elected as the executive member of the Database Professional Committee and the Big Data Expert Committee. In addition, the CCF Open Source Development Committee was established in December 2021. As the initial member of the preparatory team, Huang Dongxu was also successfully elected as the executive member of the Open Source Development Committee.

Huang Dongxu, co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, expert in distributed systems. Representative works distributed Redis caching solution Codis, and distributed relational database TiDB. Deputy Chairman of the Open Source Professional Committee of the Financial Industry Alliance, "Top Ten Outstanding Open Source Contributors in 2020", "2021 China Open Source Outstanding Figures" and "OSCAR Peak Open Source Figures". His paper "TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database" as the first author is the world's first top-level paper on the industrial realization of Real-time HTAP distributed database.

This time, Huang Dongxu was able to become the initial member of the preparatory group of the Open Source Development Committee, and was elected as the executive member of the CCF Database Professional Committee, the Open Source Development Committee, and the Big Data Expert Committee. Certainly, it also marks that open source software companies represented by PingCAP are gradually entering the public eye.

PingCAP will take advantage of TiDB distributed databases NewSQL, HTAP, cloud native and other technical advantages to accelerate the integration and innovation of basic software and new generation information technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, etc. contribute. PingCAP also looks forward to relying on CCF to connect scientific and educational resources, industrial resources and social resources, etc., to provide high-level open source innovation services for CCF members and even global open source innovation practitioners, and to help the development of open source ecological construction in China.

PingCAP, an enterprise-level open source distributed database company co-founded by Liu Qi, Huang Dongxu, and Cui Qiu, is based in the industry. While improving products through academic achievements, it is also nurturing academics with the strength of the industry, and promoting industrial development through open source collaboration models.
In 2021, PingCAP signed a strategic agreement with the CCF Database Committee of the China Computer Federation to cooperate on talent training and scientific research cooperation. Invited to participate in the compilation of CCF frontier database series; through the Ministry of Education Industry-University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project, the NewSQL database technology based on TiDB has entered 10 universities including Shandong University, North China University of Technology, Jiangxi Normal University; PingCAP and China Science and Technology University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, East China Normal University, RMIT University, ETH Zurich (ETH Zurich), and jointly published 6 top conference papers and 10 patents; jointly with Digital China, East China Normal University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Upgrade Talent Plan, establish Talent Plan database open source learning community, and cultivate more than 800 talents for distributed data core realization, from more than 200 colleges and universities at home and abroad; Talent Plan courses are accepted by Huazhong University of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Nankai University and other colleges and universities use it as a postgraduate course.

CCF (China Computer Federation) is a national, academic, non-profit academic organization voluntarily formed and legally registered by individuals and units engaged in scientific research, education, development, production, management, application and service in the field of computer and related science and technology. The group is a member of the China Association for Science and Technology.

The CCF Database Professional Committee is committed to improving my country's database technology level to better serve my country's informatization construction; discovering and cultivating database professionals, and promoting exchanges between domestic and foreign scholars; the purpose of the CCF Big Data Expert Committee is to discuss the major The core scientific and technical issues of data, promote the construction and development of the discipline direction of big data; build an academic exchange, technical cooperation and data sharing platform for big data production, education and research, and provide strategic opinions and suggestions to relevant government departments. The newly created Open Source Development Committee (CCF Opensource Development Committee, CCF ODC) is an important measure for CCF to implement the "support for the development of innovative consortia such as digital technology open source communities" proposed in the National 14th Five-Year Plan. The project results sharing incubation mechanism accelerates the open source ecological construction of the deep integration of production, teaching and research.