40 Years of Transformation | GBase Shines in the Era of Homegrown Smart Software in China
On April 24, the 3rd China International Software Development Conference with the theme "Software Industry in the Smart Era" and the 40th anniversary celebration of the China Software Industry Association (CSIA) grandly opened at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. At the event, the series of honors for the 40-year history of China's software industry were officially announced.
2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the China Software Industry Association. Over these four decades of arduous yet remarkable journey, the China software industry has witnessed an extraordinary evolution from inception to expansion, from imitation to innovation, from following to leading.
GBase Chairman Ding Mingfeng was honored with
"40-Year Meritorious Contributor to China's Software Industry"
GBase was recognized as
"40-Year Contributing Enterprise to China's Software Industry"
The company's self-developed distributed logical data warehouse, GBase 8a MPP Cluster, was awarded
"Exemplary Product of China's Software Industry"
2013, GBase 8a analytical database became the first domestic database to power the data warehouse of a major state-owned bank" was recorded as
"Milestone Event in the 40-Year History of China's Software Industry"
Over the 40-year development journey, China's software industry has produced a large number of meritorious figures and contributing enterprises, along with a series of exemplary software products and milestone events that represent historical memories and glorious moments. Through a review of the industry's achievements, the CSIA officially announced the"40-Year Software Industry Honors."
In the long river of China's software industry development, there are always some names that shine like bright stars, illuminating the firmament. With outstanding contributions to the industry,GBase Chairman Ding Mingfeng was honored with the "40-Year Meritorious Contributor to China's Software Industry". Mr. Ding Mingfeng is a veteran of the IT industry. From leading product R&D at ZTE to investing in, holding, and managing multiple software companies, he has spent over 30 years in the industry. He has been part of the arduous and pioneering journey of China's IT and software sectors, witnessing the transformation from foreign monopoly to self-driven innovation.
Leveraging its independent innovation strength and outstanding performance in the domestic IT application innovation market,GBase was recognized as a "40-Year Contributing Enterprise to China's Software Industry."As a leading domestic database vendor, GBase has grown and shared the destiny of China's software industry, delving into core database technologies for two decades. Its core technologies and underlying code are fully self-controlled. It has provided database products and services to over 10,000 users across more than 100 sectors, including finance, telecom, government, energy, transportation, and defense. It has established over96,000nodes and manages a total data volume exceeding500 PB.
GBase's self-developed distributed logical data warehouse, GBase 8a MPP Cluster, was awarded the "Exemplary Product of China's Software Industry."Launched in 2011, GBase 8a MPP Cluster is one of the earliest columnar analytical databases developed in China. It meets the ever-growing data query, storage, management, and processing needs of data-intensive industries, serving as a stable foundation and infrastructure for enterprise data warehouses, data marts, and big data platforms. Its core technology won the First Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award. It has long led China's analytical database market,ranking No.1 in CCID Consulting's domestic analytical database market share for over ten consecutive years.
GBase 8a analytical database becoming the first domestic database to undertake a data warehouse for a major state-owned bank has been written into the "Milestone Event in the 40-Year History of China's Software Industry."In 2013, GBase 8a analytical database defeated foreign competitors and became "the first domestic database to undertake data warehouse construction for a major state-owned bank." Over the following ten-plus years, GBase databases have continuously iterated, independently mastering core database technologies and accumulating extensive project implementation experience. It has served more than 200 financial users, completing the IT application innovation transformation of core business systems and the upgrade of data warehouse systems.
The featured software exhibition area outside the venue was bustling with visitors. GBase showcased its full stack of GBase database products and solutions, attracting numerous attendees who stopped to inquire and discuss the product features and deployment scenarios of GBase databases across key sectors.
After weathering many seasons, the industry stands in its prime, with four decades of dedicated cultivation that have not belied its youthful vigor. Forty years of transformation, from nothing to something; forty years of magnificence, from weakness to strength. In the 40 years since the software industry entered the market economy era, its development speed has far surpassed any previous period, with robust advances from foundational software to upper-layer applications.
Standing in the new era, the past deep cultivation and accumulation will become the new foundation of China's software industry. In the next decade, four decades, and even beyond, GBase is willing to join hands with all software enterprises across China, raise the banner of serving the nation through industry, and jointly shoulder the important mission of building a Digital China.