GBase Joins Hands with China's Open-Source Root Community to Explore the Future of Databases

In recent years, with the accelerating pace of digital transformation in China and the surging wave of domestic technology substitution, databases—serving as a critical foundation for digital infrastructure and a key component of China's IT Application Innovation (Xinchuang) initiative—have entered a golden era of rapid industrial development. According to authoritative reports, the market share of international vendors is gradually being released, and domestic players still have significant room for growth. The number of database users in China continues to rise, with data assets accumulating steadily, especially in sectors such as internet, manufacturing, government, and telecommunications, where many have already reached the petabyte scale.

Facing massive data volumes, diverse business scenarios, and complex data structures, what core technical capabilities should a commercially viable distributed database possess? At openGauss Summit 2022, GBase 8c gave an impressive answer regarding distributed database technology and practices, excelling in core areas including performance optimization, transaction processing, data distribution, distributed features, high availability, and operations management.

openGauss Summit 2022 is an annual database industry exchange and sharing summit jointly hosted by openGauss with industry organizations, partners, and customers. As an open-source database designed for enterprise core application scenarios, openGauss has been collaborating and innovating with industry partners since its official open source release on June 30, 2020. It has achieved remarkable results in technology, business, ecosystem, community, and talent development, providing powerful momentum for enterprise digital transformation driven by data.

GBase 8c is a multi-model, multi-form distributed transactional database built on openGauss 3.0. It supports multiple storage modes including row-store, column-store, and in-memory, as well as various deployment forms such as standalone, primary-standby, and distributed. Featuring high performance, high availability, elastic scalability, and strong security, it can be deployed on physical servers, virtual machines, containers, public clouds, and private clouds. GBase 8c delivers secure, stable, and reliable data storage and management services for core systems in key industries, internet business systems, and government and enterprise applications.

Multi-Model and Multi-Form: Supports three storage modes: row-store, column-store, and in-memory; supports three deployment forms: standalone, primary-standby, and distributed. Multiple product forms allow on-demand configuration, flexible resource planning, and reduced total cost of ownership.

Extreme Performance: Multi-version concurrency control (MVCC); distributed scale-out elasticity ratio greater than 0.9; NUMA-aware architecture for high performance.

Ultra-High Availability: No single point of failure globally, achieving 99.999% availability. Effectively eliminates the risk of system downtime caused by single points of failure.

Extreme Elasticity: Supports online scaling up and scaling down; compute and storage capabilities scale linearly.

Extreme Security: Supports China's national cryptographic algorithms, complying with national information security standards; supports access control, encryption authentication, database auditing, dynamic data masking, and other security features.

GBASE has always been dedicated to the independent development of China's database products, tackling key core technology breakthroughs. Moving forward, we will continue to address the pain points of industry partners, continuously optimize products and services, actively contribute to China's open-source communities, and explore the path to a robust Chinese database industry.