Solve massive data management problems | OceanBase's native distributed database consolidates the "digital intelligence base"

The wave of digital transformation is coming, and the development of the digital economy has become an important driving force for high-quality economic and social development. In recent years, my country has attached great importance to the development of the digital economy. The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy" issued in January this year clearly calls for accelerating the digital transformation and upgrading of enterprises.

The vigorous development of the digital economy, especially the acceleration of digital transformation in all walks of life, has put forward higher requirements for data storage technology. At present, the traditional centralized database has been unable to meet the increasing demand for massive data management, and the distributed database has emerged. 100% self-developed distributed domestic database - OceanBase is being recognized by more and more users due to its high availability, high expansion, high compatibility, easy management, and high cost performance.

(*This article was first published in the 7797th issue of "People's Posts and Telecommunications", which was reprinted and shared by OceanBase)

Born in response to "mass", distributed databases lead the change

The database is the core "base" that supports the management and use of massive data in the digital economy era. Chips, operating systems, and databases are considered to be the three core foundations of modern information technology. Among them, the database, as the core tool for data storage, management and application, determines the security, stability and efficiency of IT operation and data processing.

Today, with the accelerated digital transformation of the economy and society, especially the rise of new-generation information and communication technologies such as 5G, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, as well as smart government affairs, financial technology, smart transportation, distance education, and smart medical care As the application accelerates, the traditional centralized database can no longer cope with it calmly, and the database technology urgently needs to be evolved and upgraded.

How to rely on technology to make the management and use of massive data easier? As a database "new species", native distributed database technology provides the ideal answer. Compared with traditional centralized databases, distributed databases can not only achieve elastic expansion, but also greatly reduce the performance requirements of computer systems, lower deployment costs, and are easy to operate and maintain.

"The OceanBase database was born in response to 'mass'." Liu Xiang, head of the non-financial industry in the Ocean Base Solutions Department, introduced that the self-developed distributed database "incubated" from Ant Group - Ocean Base was founded with the original intention of devoting itself to To solve the core proposition of "mass data management" in the era of data explosion, OceanBase has experienced "experience" in massive business scenarios such as Alipay and "Double 11" in the past 12 years, and its performance has been fully verified.

OceanBase has many features such as high compatibility, financial-grade disaster tolerance, high availability, transparent and flexible expansion, security and stability, mainly due to the integrated distributed architecture. "The data capacity of the OceanBase cluster is 'almost infinitely scalable'." Liu Xiang said, based on the distributed architecture, OceanBase can be flexibly expanded. When the business demand surges, the capacity and performance can be rapidly improved by adding cluster nodes. When business demand plummets, the capacity can also be reduced accordingly, which is very flexible and elastic, and truly maximizes resource utilization.

Another major feature of OceanBase that is well recognized by the industry is that it is 100% independent research and development. In the past 12 years, OceanBase has always adhered to the principle of "long-termism", not eager to market, but concentrated on the research and development of native distributed database technology, insisting on secondary packaging and research and development not based on any open source database software, and finally realized the One line of code is controllable, and it truly achieves 100% independent research and development.

"OceanBase pays attention to the long-term evolution of technology, and insists on gnawing on the hardest bones first." Liu Xiang said that OceanBase fully considers users' needs for data platform compatibility and smooth migration. The operation and maintenance are highly automated, and technicians can quickly "get started".

Deeply cultivate core scenarios to boost the digitalization of the industry

OceanBase was born in the strict financial core scene, and has supported the "Double 11" activities steadily for 9 consecutive years, and its capabilities have been fully "experienced". With the continuous maturity of technology and the continuous improvement of service levels, OceanBase is moving from finance to core business scenarios in the communication, energy, social security, electric power, transportation, medical and other industries, providing strong support for the digital and intelligent transformation of all walks of life.

At the end of 2020, Shandong Mobile's billing system took the lead in using a domestic self-developed distributed database, which attracted great attention from the industry. The billing system is one of the key core business systems of telecommunication operators. It processes tens of billions of various detailed bill data every day, and the data processing performance and accuracy are very important. In recent years, with the opening of the 5G era, the increasing number of users and concurrent volumes have brought challenges to Shandong Mobile's billing system, and the traditional centralized stand-alone database has had insufficient capacity.

In order to expand the database capacity and enhance the independent controllability of the system, Shandong Mobile took the lead in using OceanBase's native distributed database in the industry, and achieved good results. "Shandong Mobile actively explored the localization of IT systems, and chose OceanBase after considering various factors such as performance, cost, and migration. The final effect exceeded expectations." Li Shichong, deputy general manager of Shandong Mobile's Information Technology Department, introduced that the actual application shows that OceanBase It not only greatly saves storage resources and costs, but also has better performance than traditional centralized databases.

Duan Yong, general manager of OceanBase's government and enterprise affairs, introduced that OceanBase has integrated multiple sets of distributed systems of Shandong Mobile, realizing high availability and disaster recovery in multiple computer rooms. After business migration, it is no longer necessary to build a disaster recovery system. At the same time, through a variety of technological innovations, one-stop database non-destructive cutting has been realized. Statistics show that the detailed bill processing efficiency of Shandong Mobile's billing system has been increased by 30%, while the storage input cost has been reduced by 90%.

Li Shichong said that the application of OceanBase has enhanced Shandong Mobile's confidence in using domestic databases. Based on the replacement of the localized database of the billing system in 2020, Shandong Mobile will complete the independent and controllable transformation of the core business system database in 2021.

In addition to the communication industry, OceanBase is also highly recognized by users in other industries. It is reported that Jiangxi Province has become the first province in the country to transform and upgrade the social insurance information system and connect it to the national pension insurance information system. It is little known that the new system of Jiangxi Provincial Human Resources and Social Security is supported by OceanBase, a native distributed database system with comprehensive independent intellectual property rights in my country. Jiangxi Social Security Information System, through unified standards and systems, supports more businesses to achieve cross-province handling, allowing "more data to travel, less errands for the masses", and to provide more convenient, fast and safe insurance services for the masses.

At present, Jiangxi Social Security Information System supports 11.67 million urban pensioners, 20.78 million urban pensioners, 2.92 million unemployment insurance workers, 5.58 million work-related injury insurance workers, and 46.3 million social security cards in Jiangxi Province. 16 hours is reduced to about 9 minutes, but the cost of the entire hardware system is only 20% of the original, which greatly improves the level and efficiency of social security services and also greatly reduces system costs.

"In June 2020, OceanBase was officially commercialized and an independent company was established to operate; in 2021, non-financial customer business revenue accounted for 35% of OceanBase's total revenue; in 2022, this value will increase significantly." Duan Yong said that in the past In more than a year, OceanBase has been recognized by many leading customers in the industry, and a quarter of the TOP 200 financial institutions are OceanBase customers.

"Using technology to make the management and use of massive data easier" is the philosophy that OceanBase upholds. In line with the trend of accelerating digital transformation, OceanBase will further increase technology research and development efforts, continue to improve product performance, strive to create an open and cooperative industrial ecosystem, and cooperate with equipment manufacturers, system manufacturers and other parties to jointly provide financial services, communications, Internet, and energy. , electric power and other industries to provide better services to boost the digital and intelligent transformation of various industries.