HUAWEI CLOUD's cloud-native database brings enterprises one step closer to applications

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During the HUAWEI Developer Conference 2023 (Cloud), HUAWEI CLOUD held a special forum on "Cloud Native Database, 'Less Philosophy' Brings Developers One Step Closer to Applications". Zhuang Qianfeng, deputy general manager of Huawei Cloud Database Service Product Department , joined hands with two Huawei Cloud database technical experts and SF Express customers to share the future evolution direction of cloud-native databases, the innovation of Huawei Cloud's cloud-native multi-mode databases, and full-link intelligent solutions , as well as SF's excellent cloud-native practices, bring enterprises and developers one step closer to applications and accelerate the implementation of cloud-native databases.

Multi-mode integration, minimalist experience, HUAWEI CLOUD builds an application-centric cloud-native database

Zhuang Qianfeng said that new applications and new scenarios have brought new business demands, and customers are eager for better solutions to problems such as data synchronization, data storage and processing, and efficient database management. The application-centric cloud-native database has the natural advantages of agility and intelligence, enabling applications to use the database more intelligently and efficiently, prompting more and more users to choose cloud-native databases more firmly.

Facing the new demands of enterprises, Huawei Cloud Database proposed three major directions of cloud native: Serverless to create the ultimate elasticity, through ALT application lossless and transparent switching, application elastic transparent scheduling, application transparent clustering and other technologies, to ensure that the database elastically scales without perception of business; Regionless Make global data available, Global Database, global layered engine, global consistent cluster and other technologies ensure high data availability and nearby data access; Modeless brings a minimalist experience, through model processing bus, HTAP, NDPQ and other technologies, based The business load selects the appropriate engine to process business requests, and realizes automatic conversion of multi-mode data, making data processing and management easier.

The Huawei Cloud relational database GaussDB (for MySQL) and the non-relational database GaussDB NoSQL, represented by the cloud-native architecture, have great advantages over open source databases in terms of ecological openness, elastic expansion, performance improvement, and high availability. For example, GaussDB (for MySQL) is 100% compatible with MySQL 8.0, realizes minute-level expansion, and its performance is 7 times higher than that of open source. It has a three-center architecture design in two places, and has real-time disaster recovery for cross-Region data. It supports up to 128TB of mass storage and can achieve over 100 10,000-level QPS throughput.

HUAWEI CLOUD's cloud-native database has been widely used in industries such as e-commerce, games, and automobile manufacturing, helping more enterprises achieve agile management. For example, it supports Mengjiao Group to build an integrated e-commerce platform, which improves the efficiency of database operation and maintenance by about 30%, and the number of orders transacted per second hits a record high, providing efficient services for 2 million store owners, 10,000+ brands, and 250 million commodities. In the game industry, HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB (for Redis) is the best game database selection, which accelerates the decentralized platform of "Mini World", achieves 5 times performance improvement, easily copes with 20 times business peak changes, and has stable sub-millisecond latency No shaking, efficiently supporting tens of millions of users to play online at the same time.

Cloud-native multi-mode integration, efficient management of diverse massive data

Yu Wenlong , NoSQL Product Architect of Huawei Cloud Database , said that with the development of enterprise business, traditional NoSQL databases face challenges in terms of capacity, performance, scalability, availability, and operation and maintenance. This synergistic NoSQL product.

HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB NoSQL supports four non-relational database engines, which are compatible with Redis, MongoDB, InfluxDB, and Cassandra, respectively, through the cloud-native-existence-computing separation architecture design, creating high-scalability, high-performance, high-reliability, massive storage, and strong disaster recovery ability.

Strong expansion: Support computing and storage expansion on demand. When computing capacity expansion, the business only jitters at the second level, and the capacity expansion takes minutes; when the storage capacity is expanded, the business is not aware of it, and the time-consuming is at the second level, and one-click expansion and contraction are supported.
Hierarchical storage: automatic exchange of hot and cold data, zero modification of the application, support for specifying the expiration time of hot data, and flexible adjustment of the hot and cold separation line.
Multi-tenant management: The cluster supports up to 60,000+ databases, supports DB-level authority isolation, and has a clear multi-tenant authority isolation design, which is easy for DBA management.
Strong disaster recovery: supports disaster recovery solutions for active-active database centers in the same city, disaster recovery solutions for three centers in two places, and supports two-way synchronization. Provides enterprise-level disaster recovery solutions.

HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB NoSQL has experienced core businesses in industries such as e-commerce, games, pan-Internet, and social entertainment, and has created an extremely stable, efficient and reliable database service. For example, in the game industry, HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB (for Redis) supports the strong launch of "Embers Storm", with stable delay and no vibration, and real-time expansion of the first day's battle peak, with zero impact on business. Internally, Huawei Cloud GaussDB (for Cassandra) helps Huawei Terminal Cloud efficiently manage 10,000+ Cassandra nodes, and easily handle 10 million+ business requests per second.

Cloud intelligent DBA assistant, Serverless, create a full-link database intelligent experience

Zhou Jiaen , Senior Product Manager of Huawei Cloud Database, said that the wheels of database technology are rolling forward, and the evolution direction of databases is also shifting from cloudization to cloud-native and intelligent. The combination of cloud-native databases and Serverless has further accelerated the evolution of cloud-native databases. Dimensions also change accordingly.

As a leading model of cloud-native databases in China, HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB (for MySQL) has realized full-stack serverless, leading cloud-native databases into the intelligent era. GaussDB (for MySQL) can be billed according to the new computing power unit, breaking the traditional business model of selling with fixed specifications, and customers can directly pay for their actual usage; Backtrack's extremely fast flashback function realizes TB-level data within minutes Backtracking is completed at the same level; Global Database breaks through geographical restrictions, enabling global access to data and disaster recovery; NDPQ intelligent parallel computing improves query response time by dozens of times.

HUAWEI CLOUD has also created a cloud intelligent DBA assistant, which provides a series of operation and maintenance capabilities such as SQL diagnosis, parameter tuning, and intelligent index recommendation, which greatly improves the efficiency of development and operation and maintenance personnel. For example, the real-time performance and session monitoring and query functions can detect database abnormalities in time and provide quick solutions to improve instance stability; the capacity estimation function can estimate space growth based on historical capacity information, and provide intelligent table diagnosis and intelligent expansion; autonomous limit The streaming function automatically detects abnormalities such as the database CPU, and performs flow limiting processing according to the established business priority to ensure the stable operation of the core business.

Cloud-native database, decoding the secret of smart logistics "express delivery"

Wang Cao , a database expert at SF Express, said that SF Express is a leading comprehensive service provider of express logistics in China and the fourth largest express delivery company in the world. , Integrated smart supply chain solutions.

In order to improve the efficiency of logistics management, SF Express has rebuilt the smart logistics management platform based on the cloud-native database. The SF Express cloud database management platform has the capabilities of cluster management, high availability, disaster recovery services, resource management, operation and maintenance ecology, and automated changes.

In terms of cluster management, we can quickly retrieve information and automatically eliminate some risks;
In terms of high availability, check the status of the database through log modules, data management and other operational services, long link modules, repair modules and other services, and quickly retrieve and repair exceptions;
In terms of disaster recovery, an integrated disaster recovery solution has been created, which can quickly retrieve abnormal information and automatically repair it;
In terms of resource management, open up resources at all levels, integrate resources as a whole, and realize the reuse of public capabilities;
In terms of automatic change, through the construction of an operation workbench, the entire process is opened at the same time, all resource information is collected, and then through the automated change process, a large amount of manual communication and change time are reduced.

SF Express is committed to building a smart supply chain ecosystem in the digital age. With the support of cloud-native databases, it has further improved the efficiency of logistics management and provided consumers with more convenient, reliable and considerate services.

Cloud-native databases are gradually becoming the "darling" of the database industry, and they are also playing an important role in more and more industry scenarios. Huawei Cloud Database will always implement the cloud-native concept, and continue to refine cloud-native capabilities around the three major directions of Serverless, Regionless, and Modeless, so as to be closer to the actual needs of customers' businesses, allowing cloud-native databases to more widely enter thousands of industries, and further promote enterprise digitalization transformation.

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