Compared with the existing market size of traditional database giants such as Oracle, the distributed database market is not large. However, today, distributed databases have gradually landed in key industries such as banking, insurance, and energy, and play an important role. Database development is inseparable from ecology, so the question arises: what does the future ecology of distributed databases depend on?
To answer this question, you need to understand three other more realistic questions: What does the ecology of distributed databases look like? What is the difference between open source distributed databases and traditional database ecology? At the same time, what connection will occur with the cloud ecology?
Leveraging our strengths to "sink down" for key industries
In the financial field, especially in the banking industry, it has always been surrounded by the core of minicomputers and Oracle databases. With the acceleration of digital transformation, Internet companies, represented by distributed technology, microservices, cloud computing and other technologies, have built a technical architecture that meets business development. From the perspective of its own financial technology development, the banking industry has seen the advantages of new technologies in terms of performance, flexibility, and cost. More and more banks have begun to apply distributed technologies to drive business development through scenario practice during business transformation.
As a technology company with long-term accumulation and achievements in the financial field, CEC Financial attaches great importance to the innovation opportunities brought by open source distributed database technology to the banking field. As early as February 2021, China Telecom Financial Trust signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Bank of Hangzhou to strengthen and deepen cooperation around financial technology application innovation and financial system distributed architecture.
For the digital innovation of the financial industry, based on the distributed architecture becomes the core of the transformation. In 2021, Bank of Hangzhou and China Electronics Financial Trust refer to the industry standards on distributed database technical architecture, disaster recovery, and security technology issued by regulatory agencies, and jointly design product test scenarios, combining TiDB's product features in key business systems. Detailed tests and verifications were carried out in simulation scenarios. TiDB has shown great advantages in the development of applications, dual-center multi-active, HTAP and other scenarios, and it can also improve and give feedback on some new product requirements during the testing process in a timely manner. In terms of openness, TiDB has obvious advantages in talent training, development platform adaptation, and open source ecology. The successful implementation of Bank of Hangzhou's application solution based on open source distributed databases is largely due to the complementary and win-win relationship formed between CLP Financial and TiDB in the construction of a new enterprise-level ecosystem for HTAP distributed databases.
In fact, not only banks are exploring digital transformation cooperation with ISVs, open source distributed database vendors like PingCAP are also working closely with ISVs in the first echelon of China to further penetrate the industry. Innovators of open source distributed databases can't go it alone when they enter the to B industry. They need to sink and use their strengths.
Banking service product units continue to introduce new ones, and the banking system is under increasing pressure and complexity. The current status of online and complex applications has further accelerated the bank's requirements for application agility and rapid database iteration. Shao Jianjun, Vice President of CEC Jinxin, who has personally experienced the deployment of open-source distributed database applications in Bank of Hangzhou, believes that for bank users, TiDB has transparent access to applications and does not need to artificially separate application models, data models, and transaction models. While reducing complexity, it improves the flexibility of the entire core transaction.
PingCAP has in-depth cooperation with China Telecom, the first echelon ISV in China, to realize the successful implementation of the open source distributed database application of Bank of Hangzhou, and will expand the application scope of open source distributed database in the core business of the bank in the next step. At the same time, the architecture evolution in the banking field is becoming more and more obvious. As cloud computing, serverless, and microservices are gradually introduced into the core transactions of the financial industry, the traditional centralized architecture of banks is gradually moving towards a service-oriented, distributed open architecture. Distributed databases will inevitably become an important choice for users in the banking and financial fields.
To help bank users digitally transform and upgrade, in the future, open source distributed database vendors and industry ISVs will inevitably need to cooperate to release more ecological capabilities of both parties. This is not only conducive to ISV's own business transformation, but also conducive to the "sinking" of open source distributed database vendors for key industries. After all, open source distributed database vendors are best at innovation in database technology itself. SI/ISVs with years of experience are better at controlling industry needs, which also makes up for the sinking of open source distributed database vendors in the industry. lack of.
In addition, for data-driven enterprises, they are facing severe challenges from data architecture. The vigorous development of mobile Internet and electronic payment services has brought new demands to typical application scenarios in the financial industry, such as core accounts and account transactions, online payments, mobile payments and other services. Cloud-native distributed databases and many features have successfully solved the needs of Internet and financial users in business scenarios, and are leading the development trend of database management technology. Global Cloud Observation analysis pointed out that for diversified business scenarios, it is difficult for any manufacturer to meet all the needs of users. Leveraging its strength is an inevitable choice for open source distributed database manufacturers to "sink" for key industries such as banks.
Attracting the favor of first-tier ISVs, the "magnetic effect" of open source distributed database vendors
According to the incomplete statistics of Global Cloud Watch, there are no less than 200 database manufacturers in China. Why is PingCAP favored by high-level ISVs like CLP Jinxin?
At present, open source distributed database vendors have shown more attractive ecological magnetic effects. According to Shao Jianjun, CLP Jinxin, PingCAP is very attractive in the industry for its performance in terms of transparency, open architecture, and open source trust.
Among them, the "divide and conquer" open architecture has become the key. The traditional large and comprehensive old-generation core business system is outdated. The biggest benefit brought by the open architecture of divide and conquer is that the online transaction processing capability is getting stronger and stronger. Another thing that stands out is agility. After all, agility is the basis for survival in response to future uncertainties. The open-source distributed database based on the open architecture satisfies the rapid innovation of banking business, and agile services become possible.
TiDB's divide-and-conquer open architecture not only realizes a highly separated architecture that separates storage from computing and storage from storage, but also further realizes that any separable component of the database can use API calls in terms of promoting database microservices, allowing services to more thorough and transparent. Thereby helping users achieve higher economies of scale, lower usage costs, better fault tolerance, and stronger risk control.
The open source strategy that PingCAP has adhered to since the first day has become the best way for it to build user trust. Through this open source collaboration model, TiDB aggregates the innovation capabilities of global developers and forms iterative innovations of products through a continuously flowing community. At the same time, the large-scale collaboration based on the network ecology improves the iteration efficiency of products. In the process of enriching the open source community, making the database closest to the actual needs of users can better absorb end users, quickly collect feedback, and enhance versatility and usability. Originated from open source, successful in open source, in the future, full trust will be poured into open source, which is one of the important reasons why Shao Jianjun values the cooperation between China Electronics Financial Trust and PingCAP.
Of course, no matter how good the database is, it is "used" by users' continuous practice. Not only are more and more financial customers choosing TiDB, but more and more partners are also choosing TiDB. It is better to be happy alone than to be happy together. PingCAP has built a diverse ecology of friendly neighbors. During this process, Global Cloud Watch analyzed that three major capabilities are indispensable:
First, we need to deepen the cooperation and win-win connection of the partner system. Through the open source model PingCAP, a "galaxy-style" partner system is created. Any individual, company, data platform, and cloud infrastructure can be connected together through the TiDB open source community to continuously mine and create business value.
Second, product iteration innovation capabilities of more personal partners are needed. Integrating research and development into the ecology, and co-innovating with users and partners, this strategy has gradually revealed its industry influence and value.
Third, the program support capabilities of ecological partners are needed. After 7 years of development and accumulation, PingCAP has empowered partners from R&D, products to services, etc., and has joined hands with ecological partners such as Digital China, China Electronics Financial Trust, Tianyi Cloud, Neusoft, Jiahe Meikang, and Yunmi Technology to build an enterprise-level Multi-data new ecology, working together to provide complete enterprise-level solutions and services for SaaS, financial technology, games, e-commerce and other digital native enterprises.
From this point of view, in order to achieve a wider range of industry innovation in open source distributed databases and achieve a new pattern of ecological win-win, PingCAP's creation of an enterprise-level multi-data ecosystem has become the focus of the industry. Its characteristics of ecological transparency, co-creation, mutual empowerment, and mutual achievement of success demonstrate the ecological magnetic effect of open source distributed database vendors on first-line ISVs, and will inevitably accelerate the advancement of open source distributed databases into the to B industry.
Ecological upgrade, open source distributed database accelerates to B industry development
Compared with the traditional database vendors that have developed for more than 60 years, the ecological construction of open source distributed database vendors is in the development stage, and it is impossible to achieve it overnight. Only the gradual upgrading of the ecology can penetrate into the digitization of thousands of industries.
From the perspective of the development history of open source distributed database vendors, their open source ecology has shown three stages:
The first is the open source community cooperation ecology in the initial stage. The biggest benefit of open source software is to avoid the traditional mode of slow iteration and accelerate the technological innovation of open source distributed databases. After all, the development of databases has changed from centralized to distributed. TiDB, openGauss, Ocean Base, etc. are all making continuous efforts in the field of open source databases. In particular, TiDB is born with open source genes, and its global open source ecology has become a fertile ground for technological innovation in open source distributed databases. So far, based on the ecological construction and cooperation of the open source community, PingCAP has 1,895 developers distributed in 45 countries and regions around the world, among which, contributors other than PingCAP account for more than 75%, of which nearly 20% are corporate decision makers . In the HTAP database differentiation competition of subdivided tracks, global open source is helping more database innovation companies to participate, so PingCAP has enough confidence to lead the innovation pattern of the new track.
The second is the new cooperation ecology of industrial technology companies in the development stage. For example, Ping An Technology and PingCAP jointly created UbiSQL, the commercial distribution version of TiDB. The two parties worked together to launch a new business model to improve the capabilities of R&D, solutions, delivery and maintenance, further adapt to the needs of financial scenarios, and ultimately export technological innovation more widely. Force, can better form industry innovation pull. Therefore, in the innovation and development of industry users and partners, PingCAP has formed a closer cooperative relationship, including the construction of joint laboratories and joint development of database releases.
The third is the stage of ecological upgrading, multiplying the capabilities of multiple industry solutions, and combining the development of cloud ecology to build a multi-data ecology. From an open architecture to an open ecological model, the open source distributed database has shown vigorous development and vitality. It has been upgraded to an enterprise-level multi-data service ecosystem, amplifying the development effect of open source distributed databases in key industries, thus bringing sufficient development vitality. It also accelerates the continuous advancement of open source distributed databases to more industries.
At the same time, relying on cloud ecological cooperation with public cloud vendors such as Amazon Cloud Technology, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, Kingsoft Cloud, and JD Cloud, PingCAP adheres to the principle of cloud neutrality, empowers global enterprise users to implement multi-cloud strategies, and focuses on global compliance The path of transformation allows more enterprises to focus on business innovation and benefit from open source distributed databases and open architecture.
As a representative open source distributed database vendor, PingCAP was born in China. In the process of going global, it emphasizes the development significance of connecting China and the world, adheres to the positioning of openness, transparency and collaboration, and accelerates to B with the continuous upgrading of the ecology Deepening the industry and working with partners to further help more companies maximize the value of data will fully release the innovative capabilities of corporate digitalization. All of this allows us to see a clearer view of the future ecology of open source distributed databases.
（by Aming）
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