GBASE & Phytium: Unleashing Database and Chip Synergy to Revitalize Historical Data

Industry Challenges

As economic globalization accelerates, data volumes have seen explosive growth in recent years. Traditional database software can no longer meet richer business demands. The market urgently needs a professional data warehouse to address the accumulation of historical data, minimizing its impact on operational databases. This enables organizations to mine valuable information, boost database performance, and provide comprehensive, multi-level decision support for financial and telecom institutions, ultimately delivering superior services to customers.

In response to this trend, the large-scale distributed analytical database joint solution co-developed by GBASE (General Data Technology Co., Ltd.) and Phytium has emerged. GBase 8a MPP Cluster (abbreviated as GBase 8a) is a distributed logical data warehouse from GBASE designed for business analytics and business intelligence. It is also the first distributed relational database cluster in China to support converged data processing.

This solution deploys GBase 8a on the Phytium Tengyun S2500 processor, fully leveraging GBase 8a’s unique features such as its federated architecture, massive data distribution, efficient compression, optimized storage structure, intelligent indexing, flexible data distribution, and high-performance online scaling. It brings into play core strengths including high concurrency, high availability, robust security, easy maintenance, and fast data loading, delivering a professional massive data storage database that is ideally suited for analytical application scenarios.

Solution Details

This solution is jointly launched by GBASE and Phytium. GBase 8a is a columnar-based distributed logical data warehouse built on an MPP + Shared Nothing federated architecture. Nodes communicate over a TCP/IP network, and each node uses local disk for data storage. The management cluster, scheduling cluster, and computing cluster support asymmetric deployment.

GBase 8a is currently the largest-scale MPP database cluster to have passed the CAICT foundational capability test for large-scale capacity of big data products, passing all 51 test cases. GBASE is also the first Chinese database vendor to complete a specialized performance benchmark on a 4096-node cluster. The solution is built on the Chinese Phytium Tengyun S2500 platform, deploying GBase 8a MPP Cluster on multiple devices over a 10 GbE network. The deployment architecture is shown below:

Joint Solution Architecture Diagram

The environment is listed in the following table:

Implementation Results

GBase 8a on the Phytium domestic computing platform underwent comprehensive functional testing for scaling out and in, service management, upgrades, node replacement, backup and recovery, dblink access, VC management and mirroring, data loading and export, and user security. Performance tests were conducted using TPC-H and TPC-DS tools with 1 TB and 3 TB data loads, and results met expectations. A long-duration stability test was also performed on TB-scale data using TPC-H and TPC-DS models, running mixed workloads of DDL, DML, and queries concurrently, along with data redistribution operations. Throughout testing, no result set errors or node anomalies occurred. The solution satisfies requirements for massive data storage and analytics, supports 24/7 uninterrupted stable operation, ensures zero data loss, and meets security requirements.

The joint solution from GBASE and Phytium perfectly harnesses the robust computing power of Phytium processors, fully unlocking database performance. Built on fully IT Application Innovation (Xinchuang)-certified products, it is more secure and reliable, effectively addressing real-world industry challenges. By combining software and hardware, it helps customers revitalize legacy historical data, unleashing its potential value.

Since its founding in 2004, GBASE (General Data Technology) has focused on core database technology, building a comprehensive data product and service portfolio that spans the full data management lifecycle, covering analytical, transactional, distributed, and cloud data warehouse technology stacks. It has provided products and services to over 10,000 users across more than 100 industries, including finance, telecommunications, government, energy, transportation, and national defense. As the saying goes, “Perseverance yields success, and action takes you far.” GBASE will continue to develop and iterate core technologies, joining forces with ecosystem partners to deliver multi-scenario, high-performance, and highly stable products and services.

Phytium Technology Co., Ltd.

Phytium is a leading independent core chip provider in China, dedicated to the design, development, and commercial promotion of the Phytium series high-performance, low-power general-purpose computing microprocessors. Adhering to the philosophy of “independent innovation in core technology and open collaboration in the industrial ecosystem,” Phytium partners with numerous Chinese software and hardware ecosystem vendors to deliver fully independent, China-developed information system solutions based on mainstream international standards and China’s advanced technologies, safeguarding national information security and critical industrial security.

Systems based on Phytium CPUs cover various types of endpoints (desktops, all-in-ones, portables, thin clients, etc.), servers, and embedded industrial control products. They have been widely deployed in China across government office, cloud computing, big data, finance, energy, rail transit, and other industry information systems.