Focusing on mission-critical business, GBase and H3C jointly launch an integrated solution.

Recently, GBase, in collaboration with H3C Group, a subsidiary of Unisplendour (hereinafter "H3C"), completed joint solution testing and validation. The solution leverages GBase's shared-storage database cluster GBase 8s, H3C's mission-critical servers, and all-flash storage. In typical OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) business scenarios, it achieved performance on par with mainstream international commercial databases running on traditional minicomputer storage environments, showcasing the practicality of the joint solution and the advanced technical capabilities of both parties.

Three Core Advantages Provide a Remedy for Traditional Database Upgrades

The jointly developed mission-critical database solution deeply integrates H3C's digital infrastructure with GBase 8s, achieving breakthroughs in three key advantages: end-to-end high performance, always-on availability, and cost-effective, easy management. It offers a proven remedy for upgrading traditional databases in the finance, telecom, government, and enterprise sectors.

End-to-End High Performance: Supports vertical scaling from 2 to 32 sockets, delivering guaranteed performance for non-distributed databases. An NVMe flash-based end-to-end I/O processing capability eliminates critical bottlenecks.

Always-On Availability: Features a battle-tested IDC maximum-availability host platform solution; application-aware intelligent storage offering a 100% storage availability service commitment; and a complete suite of storage active-active, three-site disaster recovery, data flash backup, and offline backup solutions to meet varying RPO/RTO requirements.

Cost-Effective and Easy to Manage: The high-performance scale-up host platform plus low-latency storage platform reduces bottlenecks, increases CPU consolidation ratios, and lowers CPU licensing costs. Efficient data reduction technology improves usable storage space ratios and reduces disk procurement costs. A cloud-native, AI-powered storage platform with deep database insights simplifies deployment and O&M.

Multi-Read Multi-Write and Three-Site Disaster Recovery Deployment Break Through Centralized Database Limits

As a widely recognized mission-critical database, GBase 8s has achieved the highest security rating (Level 4) in China's database market (equivalent to international B2). It supports international database standards and interfaces such as SQL92/99, ODBC, and JDBC. Supporting shared-storage clusters and three-site high availability deployment, it is well-suited for OLTP workloads, including core business systems in finance and telecom, high-security information systems in security, government, and national defense, as well as operational and management systems in large enterprises. In most scenarios, it can serve as a replacement for mainstream international databases and shared-storage clusters.

GBase 8s Architecture Diagram

Multi-Read Multi-Write

GBase 8s uses the log-based asynchronous tool Enterprise Replication (ER) to replicate data between database servers. On the source server, ER reads the logical log, stores transactions, and reliably transmits each transaction as replicated data to the target server. Its flexible, convenient architecture enables message broadcasting from one source to multiple targets, or message aggregation from multiple sources to one target. Based on actual business structures, it can also support bidirectional data replication among multiple servers to keep data synchronized in real time across all nodes.

Two-Site Three-Center Disaster Recovery

The primary site deploys an SSC cluster for load sharing, with multiple nodes in the cluster providing read/write services. A city-wide disaster recovery site deploys an HAC node for hot standby, ensuring rapid switchover if the primary site fails. A remote disaster recovery site deploys an RHAC node for disaster recovery over thousands of kilometers. All sites are managed uniformly through the CM Connection Manager.

The high-performance scale-up host platform plus low-latency storage platform reduces bottlenecks, increases CPU consolidation ratio, and lowers CPU licensing costs; efficient data reduction technology improves usable storage space ratio and reduces disk procurement costs; a cloud-native, AI-powered storage platform with deep database insights simplifies deployment and O&M.

Integrated Solution Delivers Efficient, Stable Support for Mission-Critical Business

Compared to pieced-together infrastructure, the joint mission-critical database solution from GBase and H3C fully validates and optimizes the computing, storage, backup, and database management system into a more cohesive whole, providing efficient and stable support for core business systems in finance, telecom, healthcare, and other industries.

Optimal Compute for Mission-Critical Workloads: The HPE Superdome Flex offers RAS characteristics comparable to minicomputers, with the industry's highest availability certification—AL4. It adopts an x86 open architecture, supporting up to 32 processors, 48TB memory, and 128 PCIe slots, delivering extreme performance far beyond traditional minicomputers. Its unique modular design and electrically isolated physical partitioning technology enable lower startup costs, flexible response to changing business pressures, and sustainable IT infrastructure evolution.

Redefining Mission-Critical Storage: The CF22000/G2 all-flash storage achieves end-to-end intelligent coverage with massive telemetry, application awareness, and global AI machine learning, preemptively stopping failures to support 100% availability. The multi-node active-active interconnect architecture delivers higher concurrent performance and storage reliability. Its service-centric OS eliminates integration and upgrade risks, enabling agile resource provisioning; customers can upgrade storage simply by replacing controller nodes, giving storage cloud-like characteristics and redefining mission-critical storage.

Complementary Backup Capabilities: The H3C CB7000X, a scale-out architecture backup system, complements GBase 8s database backup capabilities. It uses 4+2 erasure coding, tolerating an entire node or two disk failures simultaneously, ensuring higher recoverability. It can be expanded by adding single nodes, enabling true 'pay-as-you-grow' scalability for greater flexibility. With multi-node concurrent reads/writes, a 3-node configuration delivers performance up to 1.8GB/s, providing higher backup performance.

As a key partner in the database field, GBase and H3C have maintained close cooperation, completing compatibility and testing for multiple joint solutions. Looking ahead, GBase will continue to deepen cooperation with H3C, adhering to the principle of complementary strengths and mutual development, to launch more competitive integrated solutions that meet market expectations and empower the digital transformation across industries.