On July 13, 2023, PingCAP, an enterprise-level open source distributed database manufacturer, successfully held the PingCAP User Summit 2023 in Beijing. The theme of this summit is "Innovation first". PingCAP comprehensively analyzed the evolution direction of TiDB in the AI era, and announced the official commercialization of TiDB Serverless. At the meeting, PingCAP joined hands with user representatives to release the Pingkai database, reducing the cost and complexity of upgrading data infrastructure for Chinese companies with more complete localized ecological compatibility and enterprise-level service support capabilities. More than 30 opinion leaders from various industries who have been deeply involved in the database field for many years shared their innovation stories from technology leadership to commercial success in the era of emerging technologies.
Enhance the influence and competitiveness of China's open source databases in the international market
In the wave of global digital technology innovation, databases have become more and more important as the core data infrastructure. The development of Chinese databases has strategic significance and is an important guarantee for the innovation and high-quality development of the database industry. Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in his speech at the conference, "The localized database not only requires the localization of technology, but also requires the construction of a complete localization ecology, including R&D, production, sales, service and other links. PingCAP has a unique approach and insists on independent open source innovation. The model has been widely recognized around the world. We need to strengthen intellectual property protection and technology output, and enhance the influence and competitiveness of China's open source databases in the international market, not only to meet the needs of the Chinese market, but also to go global and serve global users. "
AI is reshaping the software industry, TiDB helps users focus on innovation
In the technology world, every technological change will trigger a series of industry reshaping, and various new applications and new scenarios will emerge. Over the past year, breakthroughs in AI are reshaping the entire software industry. "Natural language" is becoming the most popular programming language, helping excellent developers improve development efficiency by more than 10 times and accelerate application launch. The speed of data generation has been greatly increased, and the number of people with data consumption needs will also increase dramatically. These changes will require that the threshold of data consumption and data analysis must be lowered to the extent that everyone can use it.
Liu Qi, Founder and CEO of PingCAP
In the next 3-5 years, what kind of database technology can carry the software world changed by AI? Liu Qi, founder and CEO of PingCAP, believes that "in the past, data processing was often very complicated due to legacy problems brought about by product design concepts." "Do More with Less, let users focus on innovation" has always been PingCAP's The value proposition is also the constant design concept of TiDB. From solving the problem of MySQL sub-database and sub-table, to HTAP architecture, cloud native, and then to TiDB Serverless database, it is an extension of this concept. After years of development, TiDB currently has three Large product family: First, TiDB Enterprise Edition for the enterprise market, serving enterprise-level key business scenarios; second, fully managed TiDB Cloud, which provides cloud-based one-stack HTAP database services, and has become a popular platform in Europe, North America, Japan, and Asia Pacific The choice of many digital native enterprises; the third is TiDB Cloud Serverless, which has just been officially commercialized, an AI Ready database, which provides low-to-zero cost options for cloud developers and start-up companies with a minimalist architecture, extreme experience, and ultra-low threshold. Compared with TiDB Community Edition and MySQL RDS, it has more cost advantages."
Huang Dongxu, co-founder and CTO of PingCAP
No matter how the technology world changes, stability, performance, high availability, ease of use, and tool ecology have always been important demands of users for databases. Huang Dongxu, co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, pointed out in his keynote speech on "Future-oriented Databases" that the next generation of databases is facing new challenges. In addition to the extreme performance supporting massive data, the predictability of performance has become the focus; linear development experience , Database scaling is transparent to applications; efficient cost control can start at zero cost (Scale-to-Zero); multi-tenant support has become the new normal, not only to achieve isolation, but also to achieve data sharing. The eight-year evolution of TiDB has achieved the transition from technology leadership to experience leadership. When designing TiDB Cloud Serverless, PingCAP introduced a brand-new Cloud-native Storage Engine (CSE) architecture, a brand-new Key Space and Resource Control model, which realized no resource planning, second-level startup, 0 yuan start, pay-per-use, and ultimate Elastic database service, the product has attracted more than 10,000 active users within a few months of launch.
Join hands with Chinese users to create world-class products
Rapid changes in the economic environment require faster innovation. It is particularly critical for enterprises to make good use of emerging new technologies, combine them with their own business value, and achieve cost reduction and efficiency increase in the ever-changing real environment. With simple but powerful product capabilities, TiDB helps customers continuously achieve business innovation. Customers from Bank of Beijing, Topsports, and Ping An Technology also shared their stories with TiDB at the conference.
As the largest city commercial bank in China, Bank of Beijing is facing challenges such as product innovation, management refinement, and process optimization under the background of new era, new regulation, new business format, and new model. The upgrading of key business systems is an important task for Bank of Beijing to improve its informatization level in recent years. Luo Shuihua, an expert from Bank of Beijing Software Development Center, introduced at the conference: "Since the Bank of Beijing began to connect with TiDB in 2017, it has successively developed products in Super Online Banking, Network Union Payment and Clearing Platform, Open Financial Channel Platform, Internet Financial Management, and Distributed Core Transactions. The system and other scenarios have been applied online, and a dual-core fusion architecture and a high-availability architecture with three centers in two places have been created. TiDB has given full play to its distributed database capabilities, reduced core pressure, calmly responded to business growth, and enabled rapid business innovation and differentiation Services and other capabilities have greatly improved the service capabilities of Bank of Beijing in multiple financial scenarios.”
Topsports is a leading sports retail operator in China, covering more than 6,000 directly-operated stores in more than 300 cities across the country. Topsports extends the interaction and service with consumers from traditional offline to online through the power of technology. Hong Liang, chief architect of Topsports, introduced the challenges faced by traditional MySQL and Oracle solutions, and shared the evolution of his retail system from a centralized single database to a distributed database. Through the introduction of TiDB, Topsports has solved the problems of poor timeliness and inability to expand the aggregation library analysis. Currently, Topsports is exploring a full switch to the TiDB HTAP architecture to support the entire retail system, which is expected to reduce hardware resources by 50%, further simplify data links, and greatly improve the real-time performance of business reports and processing performance.
As the high-tech core and technology business incubator of Ping An Group, Ping An Technology not only continues to innovate in the database field based on TiDB, but also actively devotes itself to the open source contribution of data technology. Wang Yang, chief engineer of the database product team of Ping An Technology, introduced that Ping An Technology and PingCAP have jointly launched an innovative cooperation model to jointly create UbiSQL, a financial-grade distributed database distribution version of TiDB. Realize the improvement of solutions and delivery operation and maintenance capabilities. The UbiSQL deployment plan involves multiple member companies of Ping An, covering core system scenarios, database migration scenarios, Internet application scenarios, and real-time data warehouse scenarios.
In the sub-forum in the afternoon, WeBank, GF Securities, Dianjiang, Aneng Logistics, Zhongou Fortune, Shuyu Chain Pharmacy, Zhenying Yecai, Digital China, Sinovel Technology, China Power Jinxin, etc. came from banks, insurance , Representative customers in the fields of securities, operators, retail, manufacturing, energy, logistics, and technology overseas gathered to share the application and evolution of TiDB in enterprise business scenarios.
Pingkai database released to provide better value for Chinese enterprise users
In the past year, TiDB has achieved large-scale implementation of the core scenarios of major banks, achieved breakthroughs in core systems in both joint-stock banks and city commercial banks, and promoted the localization of the core systems of securities and insurance institutions and the replacement of domestic databases. In addition, TiDB has also built rich application scenarios in the digital transformation of various industries such as manufacturing, operators and media, consumer goods, public services, transportation and logistics, retail and catering, and going overseas. TiDB helps TCL New Ark's marketing business middle office realize the transformation goal from distribution to retail; Migu Video solves the problem of performance level expansion by upgrading to a distributed database, and significantly improves development efficiency; at the core of Shuyu Mining Pharmacy In the distributed transformation of the system CRM, the joint solution of TiDB and mobile cloud meets the growing needs of the core system in terms of processing capacity and service refinement, and empowers business development and increases efficiency.
Tang Liu, Vice President of R&D at PingCAP
The stability and performance challenges of Chinese companies under large-scale loads are world-class leaders, and PingCAP is also working with Chinese users to create world-class products. Tang Liu, vice president of R&D at PingCAP, introduced at the conference that in the TiDB 7 series, the stability and performance of large-scale clusters have been greatly improved. Reduced to the hour level, the data synchronization output delay is as low as the second level.
Pingkai database release ceremony
Ding Yan, Chief Scientist of PingCAP
As TiDB gradually enters the core scene of Chinese users and TiDB enters the localization ecology on a large scale, Cui Qiu, the co-founder of PingCAP, joined hands with heavyweight guests to release the "Pingkai Database" for Chinese enterprise users at the conference. Ding Yan, Chief Scientist of PingCAP, introduced at the conference that Pingkai Database provides enhanced enterprise-level functions based on TiDB Open Core, improves the collection, development and delivery speed of localization requirements, and provides more enterprise-level service support solutions to improve The localized ecology reduces the cost and complexity of upgrading data infrastructure for Chinese users.
Focus on the needs of Chinese customers and build a customer success system of "industry X region X ecology"
TiDB originated in China, and many of its core functions come from the scenarios and needs of Chinese users. With the global technological innovation and the acceleration of the digital transformation of Chinese enterprises, PingCAP is deeply rooted in the needs of Chinese users and has created a unique customer success system.
Chen Yuqi, Vice President of PingCAP
Chen Yuqi, vice president of PingCAP, fully interpreted PingCAP's China strategy. PingCAP is committed to building a customer success system of "industry x region x ecology", and cooperates with ecological partners to provide Chinese customers with solutions that are closer to industry scenarios and achieve more time-sensitive services. Linkage is supported. At the conference, Chen Yuqi, together with representatives of partners such as CEC Jinxin, Zhongke Soft Technology, Mobile Cloud, Sinovel, Yingfang Software, Zhenying Yecai, Neusoft, etc., jointly released a number of strategic cooperation and joint solutions.
Fu Ping, a technical expert at the Information Technology Research Center of China Electronics Standardization Institute, shared the development status of China's database industry. There are currently 249 types of database products in China, with complex technical routes, and some current national database standards need to be revised and improved. It has become a consensus in the industry to gradually improve the database standard system, fit the application scenarios, and promote the database industry to realize centralized and distributed lane change and overtaking. Distributed, HTAP, cloud native, and open source have become important trends in database development, and PingCAP has made significant contributions to the formulation of HTAP standards.
In the past two years, PingCAP has been deeply involved in the Chinese enterprise-level market, and has cooperated with China Electronics Standardization Research Institute, the Fifth Electronic Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Information and Communication Research Institute, National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, Beijing Financial Technology Industry Alliance, Institute of Financial Informatization, Zhongke Controllable, Loongson Zhongke, Phytium, Haiguang, Kirin Software, Tongxin, Inspur Information, Kingsoft, Kingdee, Baoland, Lisichen and other institutions and enterprises, in database standards and domestic We will continue to deepen cooperation in the field of globalization compatibility certification, and jointly help the digital transformation and upgrading of the industry.