The value of computing is not only the calculation itself, but the voice of the data that does not speak. From the Mayan calendar to pi, from the law of gravitation to binary, from solidified objects to virtual thoughts, all are infused with data. Alibaba Cloud's big data computing service MaxCompute uses technology to drive products and use computing power to make data speak.
Alibaba Cloud's big data computing service MaxCompute, formerly known as ODPS, is Alibaba's main computing platform. From ODPS to MaxCompute, it records the evolution of Alibaba's big data platform from supporting almost 99% of Alibaba Group's data storage and 95% of computing to supporting public cloud and proprietary cloud customer business. MaxCompute achieves continuous improvement in computing power through continuous technological innovation, and has become a powerful engine for the data transformation of customers in various industries, helping enterprises to transform potential data value into practical actions, planning and decision-making, and enabling customers to gain a new explosion in their own value. , truly transforming the outstanding computing power of MaxCompute into huge social benefits and market value.
As a big data computing service that provides fast and fully managed PB-level data warehouse solutions, MaxCompute seems to be very cold, but it has already penetrated into various scenarios in life, and is continuously providing green travel, weather forecasting, healthy life, Precision medicine, beauty live broadcast, and even urban management, genetic testing, astronomical research, etc. provide computing power.
In 2017, what we have to say about green travel is the shared bicycle industry. The stage of the market has led to a spurt in the amount of bicycles put in by various bicycle companies. Therefore, it is necessary to rely on big data computing in terms of precise placement, efficient scheduling, and accurate connection. MaxCompute successfully helped Shared bicycle companies have improved offline operation efficiency by more than 50%, easily dealt with tens of millions of daily orders, and improved the overall operation efficiency of the company by 76%, ensuring that the company provides more than 4 billion travel services to the world and accurately connects more than 10 million vehicles bike.
Weather forecasting has a wide range of demand groups, with hundreds of millions of weather queries and nearly billions of ad requests per day, so enterprises must rely on MaxCompute to meet the challenges. MaxCompute has successfully improved the work efficiency of enterprises by more than 5 times, improved performance and stability, and saved more than 70% of costs.
In the Internet insurance industry, MaxCompute helps enterprises achieve accurate user profile analysis, helps enterprises provide billions of insurance policy services for hundreds of millions of users, improves enterprise efficiency, and delivers health and safety to hundreds of millions of users.
In addition to people's livelihood, MaxCompute continues to output computing power to high-tech gene sequencing. For the calculation of genetic data of 100,000 people, which cannot be completed by traditional computing, MaxCompute can not only complete the calculation in a few hours, but also greatly reduce the calculation cost to less than 1,000 US dollars, becoming a real computing engine for gene sequencing.
As a big data computing engine, MaxCompute is continuously realizing social benefits and market value. The beneficiaries are not only enterprises, but also everyone and society as a whole. Behind the huge social benefits and market value are the continuous improvement of MaxCompute's computing power and technological innovation.
In 2017, MaxCompute achieved a number of major breakthroughs in technology.
- MaxCompute adapted the TPC benchmark, expanded the data scale to 100TB, and completed the world's first public cloud-based BigBench big data benchmark test, with a performance breakthrough of 8200QPM, realizing China's computing and global capabilities.
- On the basis of offline computing, MaxCompute integrates the Lightning Compute interactive computing mode, shortens the query response under the combination of offline and real-time data to sub-second level, and supports interactive query to meet real-time scenarios with higher latency and interactivity requirements.
- Upgrade the MaxCompute (ODPS) architecture, make efforts in NewSQL, rich structure, joint computing platform and AliORC to build an open platform with high availability, high performance and high adaptability.
- The storage and computing separation architecture and mixed distribution are realized to improve resource utilization. In 2017, Double 11 steadily supported e-commerce mixed online traffic peak 6.5W transactions/s (20% transaction traffic), Ant mixed 5W transactions/s.
- The Datahub architecture was upgraded and successfully supported the Double 11 media large-screen business. On Double 11 this year, DataHub carries compressed petabyte-level data collection, consumption, and delivery, with a full-link delay of no more than 2 seconds. For the first time, it has achieved consistent disaster recovery across computer rooms under the double 11 data flood level load. When the entire computer room fails, services can be restored in minutes, and data is seamlessly connected.
- In order to better provide high-quality big data computing services to markets and customers in various regions of the world, MaxCompute accelerated its global deployment in 2017 and has opened services in more than 10 regions around the world. It is understood that in the first half of 2018, multiple overseas nodes such as India and Indonesia will be launched one after another.
Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute shoulders the mission, not only because of the increasing participation in enterprise cloud computing and big data, but also because data is the most valuable asset of enterprises, MaxCompute continues to use computing power to make data speak.