On China's Database Development: Strategies in a Deglobalizing World

At the just-concluded main forum of the 25th China International Software Expo · China Database Industry Summit, Ding Mingfeng, Chairman of GBase, shared a keynote titled "On China's Database Development: Strategies in a Deglobalizing World," comprehensively analyzing the role of modern technological advancement in driving the macroeconomy, detailing the development trends of database technology in the AIGC era, and jointly launching the GBase Cloud Vector DB—a vector database built for large model applications and developed in China—together with guest representatives. Below is a summary of the speech.

Iterative technological advancement is the core driver of economic growth and industrial upgrading. Looking across modern history, the rapid development of information and communication technology has enabled humanity to leap from the PC internet era to mobile internet and into the AIGC era. In the new era, the marginal effect of technological progress has gradually diminished, and global economic growth has slowed. Focusing on China's internal economic circulation has become mainstream, giving rise to IT Application Innovation (Xinchuang). A brief review of the evolution and development of China's IT Application Innovation industry yields two key insights:

China's IT Application Innovation requires the database industry—as the infrastructure for managing data elements—to achieve self-reliance and controllability.

The two major opportunities of cloud computing and digital industrialization have propelled data element management to become a cornerstone of social development.

Specifically in the database field, a single one-size-fits-all database is no longer sufficient to solve every problem; each application scenario needs a dedicated database product. Against this backdrop, GBase's development strategy is to focus on core database technology and deliver scenario-based database solutions. For data warehousing, high-consistency transaction scenarios, high-elasticity scenarios, and DBaaS scenarios, GBase has built a full-stack product portfolio to provide targeted, technology-leading, mature, and stable database products, leveraging the strengths of different database types to help users solve diverse business challenges.

Overall, the future development of database technology will revolve around three major goals—helping users reduce costs and boost efficiency, safeguarding the secure circulation of data elements, and empowering emerging business scenarios—continuously iterating across twelve specific technology directions. Among these, vector databases driven by large AI models are a key focus of GBase's R&D.

Ding Mingfeng stated: GBase Cloud Vector DB is built on the GBase 8a cluster and inherits all the functionalities of GBase 8a. It features unified development interfaces, user permissions, distributed execution plans, data computing, and storage services, while also supporting vector data storage, data loading, vector retrieval, and vector indexing. It enables the definition and manipulation of vector data through various language algorithms, supports multiple development interfaces, and can be widely applied in diverse AI-driven scenarios, including image retrieval, video analysis, natural language processing, recommendation systems, targeted advertising, personalized search, intelligent customer service, fraud prevention, genetic testing, and more. In short, GBase Cloud Vector DB is designed for key large model technologies and the ultimate digital world, representing the latest trends and achievements in database technology today.

At the summit, Chairman Ding Mingfeng, together with Chen Bo, Deputy Mayor of Tianjin Binhai New Area; Cui Tongxiang, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Binhai High-tech Zone; Yang Dongmei, Chief Economist of Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology; Li Zhanhuai, Director of the Database Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF); and Song Yu, Vice President of CCID Consulting Co., Ltd., officially launched GBase Cloud Vector DB, a vector database developed in China for large model applications.

Looking ahead, GBase aims to deliver greater value to users through relentless deep cultivation of core database technology. Achieving this goal requires not only staying ahead of technological trends and continuously perfecting multi-scenario solutions, but also persisting in original innovation to refine mature and reliable commercial database products.