GBase Attends the 40th CCF China National Database Conference (NDBC 2023)

From October 13 to 15, the 40th CCF China National Database Conference (NDBC 2023) was successfully held in Guiyang, Guizhou Province. The conference reached an unprecedented scale, with over 800 participants from universities, research institutes, and tech enterprises across China engaged in database research, development, and application. As a leading Chinese database provider, GBase showcased its full portfolio of database products—GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c, and GCDW—at the event.

The CCF China National Database Conference, initiated in 1977, is the highest-level academic conference in China’s database field. It is an annual event where the latest achievements in database research and application are shared, and key challenges and research directions are explored. This year’s conference was hosted by the China Computer Federation (CCF), organized by the CCF Database Committee and Guizhou University, and co-organized by the Guizhou Computer Federation and other bodies. It focused on new challenges, issues, and directions in the database field, highlighting the latest advances in database technology research in China.

GBase has always been committed to cutting-edge database theories, industry-academia-research collaboration, and talent cultivation. The company maintains a long-standing partnership with the CCF Database Committee. During the conference, GBase’s Senior Vice President Zhao Wei and General Manager of the GBase 8c Product Division Zhang Yi attended the opening ceremony, invited talks, parallel sessions, technical forums, the CCF Database Committee plenary meeting, and the Corporate Night event, engaging actively in technical discussions and committee governance.

At the Corporate Night, Zhao Wei stated in his remarks, “GBase is an independent database provider dedicated to database product R&D, with large-scale deployments in the financial and telecom sectors. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of database products, including distributed logical data warehouse GBase 8a, shared-storage database cluster GBase 8s, multi-model and multi-state native distributed database GBase 8c, and cloud data warehouse GCDW. Our GBase database products and services cover all 32 provincial-level administrative regions in China and are exported to 34 countries and regions.”

Zhang Yi engaged with experts on the topic “In the Cloud Era, Should Application Cloud and Data Cloud Be Decoupled? And How?”

Throughout the conference, the GBase booth attracted a steady stream of visitors, with innovative database products and talent recruitment drawing significant attention.

Driven by favorable policies and industry growth, the Chinese database market is heating up and in urgent need of fresh talent. Targeting outstanding university graduates and database experts, GBase simultaneously opened dozens of positions in testing, R&D, and technical support through postdoctoral workstations, social recruitment, and campus recruitment channels, generating a strong response on site.

The database is hailed as the jewel in the crown of foundational software, and only cutting-edge theoretical guidance and outstanding kernel developers can make this jewel shine brighter. GBase is committed to collaborating with universities on “industry-academia-research integration,” fostering versatile talent for the database industry through teaching fundamental principles and providing practical database engineering experience.

Looking ahead, GBase will continue to focus on innovative database theories and work with the CCF China Computer Federation to contribute to the advancement of foundational software in China.