Teradata Announces Exit from China – GBase 8a Is the Clear Choice for Replacement

Published on 2023-02-16

Recently, data warehouse vendor Teradata announced its exit from direct operations in China, initiating the closure of its Chinese entity. This news has drawn widespread industry attention. GBase 8a is a distributed logical data warehouse product optimized and developed for data warehouse scenarios. It has over30,000 commercially deployed nodes and manages more than 300 PB of data, making it the product with the largest number of deployed nodes and the most managed data in the data warehouse field in China. Its users span more than 30 countries and all 32 provincial-level administrative regions in China, and it has been widely applied in critical sectors such as finance, telecommunications, government and enterprise, and security. GBASE (General Data Technology) has extensive experience successfully replacing Teradata and has completed over 100 large-scale client replacements of Teradata and other foreign data warehouses, making GBase 8a the clear choice for replacement.

Replacing Teradata with GBase 8a

Compared with Teradata, GBASE, as a leading China-developed database company, has formulated a cloud development strategy and made early investments in cloud-based data warehousing. The cloud-native data warehouse GCDW, evolved from GBase 8a, has been officially released, offering users efficient, convenient, automatically deployed, and cost-effective cloud-native data warehouse services.

Replacing Teradata with GBase 8a achieves data warehouse localization while improving the overall performance and scalability of the platform.

A large state-owned insurance company, during the replacement process, found that GBase 8a not only ensured data security but also boosted the data warehouse platform performance by 10 times while reducing expensive hardware, software, and maintenance costs. Moreover, by using a self-developed big data platform, the company achieved real-time analysis of business data, improving the efficiency and accuracy of business decision-making.

A leading telecom operator in China, one of the largest in the country, has a huge customer base and massive volumes of business data. It previously used Teradata as its data warehouse platform, but as data volumes continued to grow, Teradata’s performance and costs could no longer meet its demands. Therefore, the operator chose GBase 8a to replace Teradata. After the replacement, the data warehouse platform performance improved significantly while costs were greatly reduced. GBase 8a’s high performance, stability, reliability, and self-controlled features meet the operator’s needs for data analysis and business support, enhancing its operational efficiency and competitiveness.

Users who replaced Teradata with GBase 8a have all achieved remarkable results. These cases demonstrate GBase 8a's advantages of self-control, high performance, high scalability, stability, and reliability, and are helping more users recognize the strengths and potential of China-developed data warehouses.