Onion Group joins hands with OceanBase to achieve distributed upgrade, and global data realizes cross-cloud integration for the first time

Recently, Onion Group completed the distributed upgrade of core business systems, involving 9 sets of system data related to commodity management, order management, user management, warehouse management, etc. The real-time aggregation to the domestic native distributed database OceanBase, the first realization of global data across multiple clouds and regions in real time Synchronization, integration, and analysis ensure zero data loss at the computer room level, which effectively guarantees the rapid and stable development of global business in the future.

Positioned as a global brand management company, Onion Group is the first online and offline digital business enterprise approved by the Ministry of Commerce in Guangzhou. As a quality life brand platform for the new generation of consumers, Onion Group is committed to building a high-quality brand format and ecology, and using product power to provide people with high-quality consumption choices. The upstream relies on strategic alliances, brand agency, and innovation and self-research to create a unique brand portfolio; downstream relies on a strong channel matrix, allowing high-quality goods and services to accurately cover a wider range of consumer groups. So far, it has successfully built a complete brand format and closed loop of ecological management and control from product research and manufacturing - brand building - marketing empowerment - channel operation - user access, with one-stop brand incubation, marketing and sales capabilities.

With the increase in the number of orders and brands, the Onion Group will bring more than 1,000 overseas brands to participate in the "High Five" shopping festival in 2022 alone, and the annual sales volume will reach hundreds of millions. The original traditional centralized database faces problems such as poor performance of complex queries in large data volume scenarios, low efficiency of sub-database and sub-table, and soaring complexity of operation and maintenance.

After a number of evaluations such as application compatibility, performance, and data aggregation links, and comprehensively considering the global business development of cross-border e-commerce, Onion Group finally chose OceanBase, a domestic native distributed database that has stably supported "Double 11" for 9 consecutive years. With the high scalability of the native distributed database, OceanBase's single-cluster capacity can reach PB level, and Onion Group no longer needs to perform database and table operations. Relying on the intelligent operation and maintenance capabilities of OCP operation and maintenance management tools around monitoring, alarming, and diagnosis, Onion Group can quickly locate the fault through visual analysis, get to the root cause of the fault and deal with it with one click, and the operation and maintenance efficiency is greatly improved.

At the same time, since the data is scattered in different business systems and the systems are deployed on different cloud platforms in different regions, data analysis needs to access multiple data sources across regions and cloud platforms, which greatly increases the complexity and urgently requires data fusion analysis to improve decision-making Effectiveness. The original traditional centralized databases of Onion Group were deployed in Alibaba Cloud in Hong Kong, Tencent Cloud in Hong Kong, and Alibaba Cloud in mainland China, and involved multiple types of databases. Various heterogeneous databases on Tencent Cloud are all synchronized to the same OceanBase cluster in real time, enabling real-time data aggregation across multiple clouds and regions. The OceanBase cluster implements strong consistent synchronization of transaction logs between multiple replicas across computer rooms through the Paxos protocol, ensuring zero data loss at the computer room level.

Onion Group's data-driven growth has always been at the forefront of the industry, integrating human experience and data to more accurately grasp future consumption trends. With the HTAP capability of the native distributed database OceanBase, Onion Group's data analysis time has been greatly shortened, and real-time analysis performance has been improved by more than 200%, making data insight and decision-making more efficient.

The Onion Group joined hands with OceanBase, the world's only distributed database that broke world records in both TPC-C and TPC-H tests, to complete the distributed upgrade. The next generation creates a better way of life.