Recently, a big event happened in the database field, which can be called a milestone. Gartner, the world's most authoritative IT research company, recently released a message: In the global DBMS market share in 2022, the database of Amazon Cloud Technology surpassed Microsoft and ranked first.
The three giants Amazon Cloud Technology, Microsoft, and Oracle have been ranked among the top three in recent years, accounting for more than two-thirds of the global DBMS share. Oracle was the first before 2019, and was subsequently surpassed by Microsoft and Amazon Cloud Technology.
A large number of "pure cloud databases" represented by Amazon cloud technology have suddenly risen in the past ten years, launching fierce attacks on those traditional databases, and beginning to occupy an important position. This actually illustrates a trend that cloud databases are the future.
In fact, it is not a coincidence that Amazon Cloud Technology can reach the top, because in the Gartner Cloud Database Magic Quadrant report, Amazon Cloud Technology has been rated as a leader for eight consecutive years, especially last year, and it has thrown off other competitors.
Technological innovation centered on customer needs
In 2006, the cloud storage service Amazon S3 came out, which was the world's first commercial cloud computing product, which aroused the public's attention to cloud services, and commercial cloud computing officially started. Then, is the story of Amazon DynamoDB, the world's first truly cloud-native database:
Dynamo was originally developed by Amazon to meet the needs of its e-commerce business. Once, Amazon e-commerce faced the challenge of dealing with large-scale distributed data storage and processing, and traditional relational databases could not meet its high scalability and high performance requirements. Therefore, Amazon decided to develop a distributed storage system of its own, namely Dynamo. His paper "Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store" published in 2007 is also regarded by the industry as the beginning of the NoSQL field.
Based on Dynamo's internal successful experience, Amazon decided to provide it as a cloud service to external users, and launched Amazon DynamoDB in 2012. The same technological innovation story is also constantly being staged.
In 2014, Amazon Aurora was officially launched on re:Invent. This is a relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, which is specially built for the cloud. It not only has the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases, but also has the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. , is highly innovative.
In recent years, the mobile Internet has exploded, and the computing business is diverse. The uncertainty of traffic and data has made Serverless popular. Amazon Cloud Technology has innovatively extended Serverless from the computing field to the data field, allowing the database to be used on demand based on traffic. And change.
For example, Amazon Aurora Serverless, which separates computing and storage, computing nodes and storage nodes can be automatically scaled according to the amount of computing and storage; real-time processing of Amazon MSK Serverless, which can be automatically scaled according to traffic needs; big data processing has Amazon EMR Serverless, The number of nodes can be automatically adjusted based on the workload...
When the performance of software and hardware is about to be "squeezed dry", the Amazon Nitro system adopts the integration of software and hardware technology, so that the software and the underlying hardware are tightly integrated, which directly improves the write performance of MySQL by 2 times, and the read performance Performance increased by 50%.
There are many such cases, and it is this continuous innovation and improvement that makes Amazon cloud technology finally stand at the forefront of the market.
Product development centered on user experience
Early IT applications were relatively simple, and generally a relational database was sufficient. With the rapid development of the Internet, data diversification appeared. In order to store various data such as text, pictures, videos, and social relations, Amazon Cloud Technology Constructed a variety of databases, special database dedicated to meet the needs of various customers, to achieve the ultimate performance.
Most databases are serverless, so that users don't have to think about how to expand the database, so they can realize business more agilely and focus on business innovation.
These databases can also be easily integrated with cloud data analysis, machine learning and other services, which means that customers can seamlessly connect various services in the same cloud environment, thus greatly simplifying system architecture and operation and maintenance.
By deploying these basic implementations in multiple geographic regions and availability zones around the world, the database service can provide strong data persistence and high availability, and at the same time better meet the requirements of data sovereignty and data delay.
Formulate a product strategy that suits the client's business by "working backwards"
Reverse working method is a problem-solving method whose core idea is to start with a goal or result, think backwards and formulate action steps to achieve that goal. To develop cloud database services, if you just do "innovation" behind closed doors and don't pay attention to customer feedback, it can only be self-admiring, or even no one cares about it. Only by always meeting customer needs as the guide and developing services that meet various application and business needs can we establish a close relationship with customers and truly solve customer problems.
This can be seen very clearly at the re:Invent conference of Amazon Cloud Technology. General technology conferences mainly talk about how powerful their own products are and what problems they can solve. The marketing flavor is very strong. On re:Invent, it is the other way around. It generally shares what problems customers have. After summarizing, refining, and precipitating, a new cloud service is launched this year, what features does it have, and what problems can it solve.
After more than ten years of continuous innovation and development, Amazon Cloud Technology claims four major characteristics of cloud-native databases: "dedicated database, extreme performance", "serverless, agile innovation", "global architecture, one-click deployment" and "data Linkage, extensive integration", has gradually been recognized by the market.
The end-to-end data strategy advocated by Amazon Cloud Technology also makes the "database" not just the embodiment of the database.
In fact, in the process of supporting its millions of customers, a cloud vendor has realized that the product development strategy needs to conform to the customer's development law. Provide customers with corresponding product support for data ingestion, storage, query, analysis, cataloging, and management, and all of them can be implemented in the cloud. Various services can be easily integrated, combined, and linked to help users realize data sharing and analysis. , realize business value.
We have been keeping up with the development of the times, constantly innovating to meet the needs of customers, bringing value to customers, and helping customers succeed. This is the key to the success of Amazon Cloud Technology's cloud database, which has allowed it to accumulate steadily and grow steadily in the past ten years, and will reach the top as a "pure cloud database" in 2022.
This is a milestone moment. Cloud computing is the future. There is no doubt about it. I believe that the cloud-native database represented by Amazon cloud technology will bring greater value and greater surprises to the public in the future.