Big Data Transforms Business – A Leading Chinese Database Vendor, GBase Invites You to Explore the Investment Value of Big Data.
From December 15 to 17, the Essence Securities 2016 Annual Strategy Conference was held at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai. Mr. Cui Weili, Chairman of General Data Technology Co., Ltd. (GBase), China's leading database provider, spoke on the theme "Big Data Transforms Business" and shared his perspectives on technology transformation, market opportunities, business costs, operational vision, and the competitive landscape facing China's big data sector with the investment conference attendees,and engaged in deep dialogue with investors.
Technology Transformation
Big data is driving a fundamental shift in data processing architecture, moving from a single architecture supporting all applications to multiple architectures tailored to diverse workloads. This architectural shift is fueling technology innovation. GBase seized the opportunity, developing GBase 8a—a structured big data processing database—concurrently with international products, ensuring technological parity and market equivalence with foreign counterparts.
Market Opportunities
The new wave of technology innovation sparked by big data has opened market opportunities for Chinese databases to break the monopoly of international products. GBase 8a has already been deployed across 16 industries, including telecommunications, banking, and defense, with over 1,200 nodes nationwide and managing more than 10PB of data, making it China's #1 structured big data platform by market share. As market recognition grows, GBase's industry standing has also risen. For several years, CCID Consulting has consistently ranked GBase as the top Chinese database, directly challenging industry leaders like Oracle.
Business Costs
Mr. Cui cited China Mobile as an example, describing a real-world cloudification project that replaced IBM minicomputers and high-end storage arrays with GBase 8a running on x86 servers. By maintaining the same overall system performance while adopting a new structured big data computing architecture, the solution reduced user investment costs by up to 90%.
Operational Vision
At Agricultural Bank of China, GBase 8a replaced the foreign product Sybase, breaking through Sybase’s poor scalability. Data processing capacity surged 100x, scaling from terabytes to petabytes. By adopting big data processing technology, ABC achieved a headquarters-level data warehouse for the first time. With centralized data, the bank's operational vision expanded from branch-level to the entire organization.
Competitive Landscape
In the structured big data analytics domain, GBase 8a has outperformed established database giants like Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, and now stands alongside emerging players such as HP and EMC in the top tier.
In the traditional transaction processing field, General Data Technology independently built the GBase 8t database by introducing innovation and leveraging full database source code and test suites. GBase 8t is now live in core business systems at multiple banks and telecom operators, including Industrial Bank, Huaxia Bank, and China Mobile.
Chinese databases are closing in on and beginning to surpass international products, enabling a truly independent and secure technology strategy.