The first session of the 14th National People's Congress closed in the Great Hall of the People on the 13th, and China's economic and social development has embarked on a new journey. At the two sessions, around the theme of "high-quality development", how to play the leading role of science and technology and strengthen independent innovation capabilities has become the focus of attention of all parties. Strengthening the construction of digital infrastructure also appeared in the suggestions and proposals of many representatives and committee members. .
On the 13th, in the live program of "Grasp the key root technology, China's databases walk out of the road of independent innovation-the evening talk of the Global Two Sessions", many industry insiders emphasized that in the digital age, the database has become the key root technology of social and economic operation and As the key force supporting the high-quality development of the digital economy, China needs to create independent research and development, safe and reliable database products, and take off this "pearl in the crown of basic software".
In the digital age, digital infrastructure needs to be strengthened
In the digital age, the world generates massive amounts of data all the time. According to the "Digital China Development Report (2021)" issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China, from 2017 to 2021, my country's data output will increase from 2.3ZB to 6.6ZB, ranking second in the world. Many people in the industry compare data to "oil" in the digital economy era. How to preserve, manage, and utilize this new type of production factor has become an important proposition that all countries need to answer. On the 10th of this month, the First Session of the 14th National People's Congress voted and passed the decision on the institutional reform plan of the State Council, and approved the establishment of the National Data Bureau, showing the importance of data governance.
If there is data, it is inseparable from the database. It is a system for storing, organizing, managing, and analyzing data, and plays a link between the software and hardware of the information system.
Su Guangniu, general manager of Huawei Cloud Database Service Product Department, said in a live broadcast on the 13th that everyone’s daily life is closely related to databases. It can be said that databases are everywhere: withdrawing money from a bank’s ATM machine is a typical transactional database. It is supported behind the scenes; housing loans are calculated by a typical analytical database behind the scenes; daily mobile payments, ordering food, taking buses and subways, and paying utility bills are all supported by databases. "Although it is not obvious, the database is extremely important." Su Guangniu said.
He Jiajia, chief engineer of the Financial Technology Innovation Department of Postal Savings Bank of China, also said in the live broadcast that with the development of information construction and digital transformation, the amount and complexity of data are increasing exponentially, so more powerful and efficient Database technology to support the storage, management and processing of data. Technologies such as data analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning also require powerful database support to realize their application scenarios. In the digital age, the database is not only a key and necessary basic technology, but also one of the important driving forces to promote and support business development and innovation in various industries.
Chinese databases are already at the forefront of the world in some fields
In recent years, China's database market has been developing rapidly and a hundred flowers are blooming. According to the latest 2022 "Database Development Research Report" released by the Database Application Innovation Laboratory of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, there are currently 116 domestic database manufacturers, accounting for 32% of the global number of manufacturers, and this number is still growing.
However, among domestic database manufacturers, 80% of them have less than 100 employees, nearly 80% of enterprises have less than 50 database patents, and nearly 75% of their products are simply packaged based on foreign open source technologies. Taking the financial industry as an example, the current market share of international manufacturers is still about 90%, and the databases developed by Chinese companies generally present a "small and scattered" market situation.
Nevertheless, some Chinese databases represented by Huawei GaussDB have always insisted on independent innovation, and have reached the international leading level in some fields.
Li Guoliang, a tenured professor and deputy director of the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, and deputy director of the Database Committee of the China Computer Federation, said in a live broadcast on the 13th that China has already developed distributed databases, especially distributed transaction processing, distributed optimization, and distributed high-speed databases. Availability and other aspects have a leading edge. In addition, Chinese databases have also reached the international advanced level in terms of cloud-native elastic scaling, intelligent optimization, and full-secret security protection, and even have certain advantages.
Huawei is one of the earliest companies in China to focus on distributed databases. After nearly 20 years of strategic investment, the layout of six global research institutes, and the research of more than 1,000 database professionals, Huawei has created a self-developed native distributed database GaussDB.
Su Guangniu said that Huawei Group's own IT system (MetaERP system) has fully used GaussDB. MetaERP supports Huawei's business processing in more than 170 countries and regions, and the end-to-end business processing efficiency of GaussDB's metaERP system is used. With nearly a hundred times performance improvement. In addition, GaussDB has also achieved large-scale commercial use in the core system of the financial industry with the most stringent database requirements.
Last year, Postal Savings Bank launched the world's largest bank distributed new core, and its database selected Huawei GaussDB. He Jiajia, who is deeply involved in this project, said that the database is a key technical component of this new distributed core. Not only must data processing capabilities, performance stability, reliability, and security be considered, but also the scalability of the database, Manageability and cost-effectiveness etc.
It is reported that Postal Savings Bank’s new-generation personal business core system can provide the bank’s 650 million individual customers and more than 40,000 outlets with an average daily transaction processing capacity of 2 billion transactions and a peak value of 67,000 transactions per second. 93 milliseconds has been reduced to 65 milliseconds, which is 30% lower than the old core system, and the batch processing time has also been shortened from 4.5 hours to 3 hours. In the third quarter interest settlement at the end of September 2022, it only took 25 minutes, compared with the previous 140 minutes, the efficiency has been doubled, and the performance has been greatly improved
In the field of finance, which has the most demanding database requirements, the successful cooperation between Huawei GaussDB and Postal Savings Bank of China is also the epitome of the achievements of Chinese database development, which means that Chinese databases are capable of playing a more important role in the wave of digital transformation of enterprises. Help all walks of life to achieve high-quality development through digitalization.
The healthy ecology of the industry needs to be jointly created by all parties
According to data released by industry research institutions, in 2021, the global database management software scale will be about 70 billion U.S. dollars, of which the Chinese market will be about 4.7 billion U.S. dollars. Although there is a high growth rate, the proportion of Chinese databases at the global level is still low. The entire industry is in a new development cycle, and the industry structure is still being shaped.
As China's database industry matures, the importance of ecology has become more prominent. Su Guangniu said that the database is an ecological product, and the healthy development of the database is inseparable from a benign and healthy ecology. GaussDB has also been promoting the development of the industry ecology: In terms of industry ecology, Huawei actively participates in the construction of the domestic standard system for databases , to work with the industry to promote the development of industry standards and evaluations in terms of database basic capabilities, performance, and security, and to share Huawei's technical practices and cutting-edge explorations in the field of database research with the industry through industry white papers;
In terms of personnel training, Huawei has cooperated with the Ministry of Education to jointly build database courses with colleges and universities, conduct regular teacher training, and cooperate with many colleges and universities to publish database textbooks and teaching aids through projects such as smart bases, new engineering, and virtual laboratories. More than 170 database courses have been offered in more than 110 colleges and universities, and more than 35,000 students have been trained;
In the field of partner ecosystem construction, Huawei has established cooperative relationships with outstanding database partners in the industry to provide customers with services such as operation and maintenance, migration, and consulting. At the same time, it also cooperates with leading independent software developers in the industry to build joint solutions.
He Jiajia said that the system construction of China's database industry is still a topic that needs to be discussed by all parties. This requires the combination of industry, academia and research to improve the activity and ability of the ecology. At the same time, the industry also needs support and guidance at the institutional level to promote ecological construction.
Li Guoliang expressed the hope that in the next five years, China's database industry can establish a healthy ecology, and all walks of life will perform their duties to develop domestic databases and form a benign database market, and hope that Chinese databases can provide a new choice for the world.
Su Guangniu said that in the future, Huawei will continue to invest in and improve the database as always. At the same time, it hopes to continue to polish the database with national standards organizations, more partners, and customers from all walks of life, so as to provide a solid data base for technological innovation.