GBASE and Hexin Technology Co-create a 'Chinese Chips + Database' Domestic Alternative Solution

Published on 2023-01-03

The Importance of Databases

Databases are a critical part of China's domestic basic software and the core of information systems. China's underlying standards, architectures, products, and ecosystem for information technology have been controlled by foreign entities, and restrictions on these upstream core technologies have severely impacted the development of China's key scientific and industrial sectors. In 2018, after ZTE was added to the U.S. Entity List, the Science and Technology Daily identified 35 critical technologies, of which databases were one.

Definition of a Database

As the core of an information system, a database plays a vital bridging role in computing: it calls underlying hardware resources downward and serves as a crucial support engine for various application software upward. In the general sense, a database refers to a Database System (DBS), which consists of four components: the database, the database management system, applications, and administrators.

GBASE and Hexin Technology

Tianjin General Data Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as "GBASE"), since its founding in 2004, has consistently pursued independent innovation. The core technologies and underlying code of its products are independently controllable. It has built a data product portfolio and service solutions covering the full lifecycle of data management and the entire technology stack. Its independently developed products—including the distributed analytical database GBase 8a, the shared-storage database cluster GBase 8s, and the multi-model distributed database GBase 8c—have been widely adopted in critical sectors such as finance, telecommunications, government, and security. GBASE serves users in 34 countries and 32 provincial-level administrative regions in China, with more than 30,000 nodes deployed and over 300 PB of data under management.

Hexin Technology is a high-tech company focusing on the R&D of domestically-produced high-end server processor chips, as well as the production and sales of server chips and custom high-end server systems based on client needs. Its independently developed HX-C1000 processor and the series of servers based on this platform deliver leading functionality and excellent performance, providing robust hardware support for business needs in finance, telecommunications, energy, transportation, education, healthcare, and other industries.

GBASE & Hexin Technology Joint Solution

Recently, Hexin Technology's high-end domestic server, based on the Chinese database GBASE GBase 8a, passed basic functionality tests and business scenario performance tests, demonstrating functional compatibility, easy deployment, stable operation, and efficient service requirements. This mutual certification provides important reference value for the construction of a domestic database solution, from software-hardware integration to smooth operation along the path to full domestic substitution.

Aligning with the trends of the times, GBASE, a specialized database vendor, partners with Chinese chip manufacturer Hexin Technology to jointly deliver a one-stop "Chinese chips + database" domestic alternative solution, fully meeting industries' requirements for high availability, high security, high reliability, and high performance.

Solution Architecture Diagram

Solution Advantages:

Domestic Demand: GBase 8a database paired with Hexin HX-C1000 high-end CPU server aims at breakthroughs in key domestic technologies, meeting users' needs for independent and controllable domestic solutions.
High Stability: Both software and hardware offer high reliability, ensuring long-term stable server operation.
Supports common interface standards such as JDBC and ODBC.
Supports creation and management of common database objects through graphical interfaces and command-line tools.
Supports identity authentication, log auditing, permission management, access control, encrypted storage, and more.
Supports data migration from databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server to the current database.
Supports backup and recovery, clustering, and dual-machine hot standby.

Database Usage Scenarios

Requirement Analysis: In the era of big data, data resources are like oil—a strategic asset. Data represents wealth, knowledge, and information; it embodies the core competitiveness of enterprises and even nations in the wave of technology. How to ensure data is not lost and business continuity is not interrupted is a critical issue that modern enterprises and society must address.

Two-Site Three-Center High Availability Architecture Diagram

Technical Advantages:

High Security: Features data confidentiality, permission control, attack resistance, and user behavior tracking; supports encryption and decryption throughout communication and data access, including software encryption and cryptographic card encryption, and supports three-power separation (separation of duties).
High Availability: Supports intra-city active-standby disaster recovery cluster (intra-city HAC) and remote disaster recovery cluster (remote HAC) solutions, with failover within seconds and 99.999% cluster high availability. Supports two-site three-center high availability deployment, with remote disaster recovery distance up to over 1,000 km.
Shared Storage Cluster: Solves data high availability issues for critical business, supporting automatic failover within seconds. The cluster supports up to 128 nodes, and users can achieve near-linear scaling of read performance by adding cluster nodes.
Broad SQL Compatibility: Supports data migration from databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server, maximizing the reuse of users' and developers' database experience and lowering the barrier to entry.
Ease of Use: Supports graphical installation, management, and development. Provides browser-based (B/S architecture) database monitoring tools, and supports creation and management of common database objects through graphical interfaces and command-line tools.
Low-Cost Migration: Offers various migration tools and real-time synchronization tools, safeguarding business accuracy and stability during application migration and trial operation.

Customer Value:

Enables enterprises, as they handle massive data growth, to build efficient, convenient, and low-cost database disaster recovery systems tailored to their actual situations.
Achieves the overall goal of building a secure, efficient, and convenient banking system through data centralization, flat management, and scientific decision-making.
Realizes database disaster recovery switchover and switchback, effectively ensures data consistency, system recovery speed, and granularity requirements, and enables secure and effective disaster backup across heterogeneous environments.
Provides unified data management and governance, meeting the requirements of upper-level regulatory bodies for reported regulatory data, and ensuring data accuracy, timeliness, and completeness.

Outlook

Looking ahead, GBASE will continue to focus on its corporate mission of helping users "unlock data value through software," dedicated to the R&D of foundational data processing products and technical services, with the business goal of meeting the large-scale, high-performance, distributed, and highly secure data processing demands triggered by the explosive growth of data in the internet era.

Looking ahead, Hexin Technology will continue to focus on high-end server CPUs and customized server design services, solving self-controllability issues for high-end processors, setting a new benchmark for China-made high-end processors, and providing a key driving force for domestic substitution and the construction of digital economy infrastructure.