Stronger Together | GBase and Inspur Power Systems Launch the GBase HyperSynth Database Appliance

Published on 2024-08-13

On August 9, the "YuanBrain China Tour" national roadshow by Inspur Information was successfully held in Tianjin. During the event, GBase and Inspur Power Systems Co., Ltd. jointly launched the GBase HyperSynth database appliance. Based on GBase 8s shared-storage database cluster, the appliance integrates computing power, networking, and storage into a single system. Its "disaggregated storage and compute plus shared storage" converged architecture delivers ultra-high data processing performance and over 99.999% "financial-core-grade" high availability. The integrated delivery model dramatically simplifies database infrastructure deployment and O&M, while complex hardware-software integration and performance tuning are embedded into the system, providing users with a plug-and-play database platform that accelerates data value realization and empowers digital and intelligent transformation.

Close Partnership  Creating a Database Appliance

As digital technologies like cloud computing, big data, and AI continue to proliferate and evolve, users face exponential data growth. This surge places new demands on data storage and processing capabilities while presenting fresh challenges for data privacy and security. Consequently, deeply integrated database appliances that combine optimized software and hardware and offer flexible deployment, efficient expansion, and simplified O&M are increasingly favored by users.

As a leading Chinese database provider, GBase has partnered with Inspur Power Systems, a premier brand in China's critical computing sector, to focus on essential computing infrastructure and core foundational software. By complementing each other's strengths, the two industry leaders jointly created the GBase HyperSynth database appliance. The solution aims to provide users with an advanced, extremely convenient, highly reliable, high-performance product that is easy to maintain, highly compatible, and secure, with flexible deployment and efficient expansion. A single architecture satisfies diverse database application scenarios, enabling enterprises to deeply mine data value and outperform in the era of business intelligence.

The GBase HyperSynth database appliance pre-integrates hardware and software specifically optimized for database management. With highly integrated components, it achieves higher data throughput and lower response latency. The advanced integrated platform architecture supports heterogeneous and multi-version database hybrid deployment and features built-in high availability, enabling second-level fault detection and automatic switching without third-party components. The full-rack delivery model simplifies hardware integration, reducing integration time by over 80%. Based on pre-validated and pre-tuned solutions, one-stop rapid delivery shortens deployment time by 65%, significantly improving business launch efficiency. Additionally, the GEM centralized management platform provides centralized management and intelligent O&M functions, enhancing O&M efficiency and collaboration while reducing costs. 

The GBase HyperSynth appliance adopts a "disaggregated storage and compute + shared storage" integrated platform architecture, providing highly reliable, high-performance complex transaction processing and real-time data analytics capabilities. It supports rapid deployment and on-demand scaling, allowing users to flexibly adjust compute and storage resource allocation based on business needs. With 24x7 uninterrupted operation, it ensures the continuous and stable running of core business systems across industries. Its centralized O&M management platform is more intelligent and efficient, enabling unified monitoring, configuration, and maintenance of multiple database environments.

Deep Optimization  Making Data Management Smarter and More Efficient

Cui Zhiwei, General Manager of the GBase 8s Product Division at GBase, stated that Inspur Power Systems' critical computing servers, as a leading Chinese brand, are highly regarded for their unique "Three Highs and One Strength" characteristics. This deep collaboration between GBase and Inspur Power Systems to launch the GBase HyperSynth database appliance represents a breakthrough in their ecosystem partnership, enabling the GBase 8s database to deliver even more outstanding data processing capabilities and a better data usage experience for users.

Li Changwen, General Manager of Product Marketing at Inspur Power Systems, commented that as a leading Chinese database provider with a 20-year focus on database R&D and promotion, GBase's products and solutions covering the full data management lifecycle and technology stack have been adopted by over 10,000 users across 33 provincial-level administrative regions in China, spanning finance, telecommunications, government, energy, and transportation sectors. Furthermore, its database products are sold in 34 countries and regions, including the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. This jointly built, pre-integrated, and pre-validated end-to-end database appliance solution will further leverage the accelerating effect of industry-leading critical computing power in the core foundational software domain, fully unlocking the potential of data as a production factor.

Through joint design and deep optimization, the GBase HyperSynth database appliance achieves highly efficient hardware-software synergy, making data management smarter and more efficient. In TPC-C database performance benchmark tests, the appliance delivered twice the performance of x86 platforms, demonstrating a clear performance edge. Additionally, it supports centralized and shared-storage high-availability deployments, as well as industry-leading high-availability cluster technologies such as SSC, HAC, RHAC, and ER. Through different solution combinations, it can construct two-site-three-center and intra-city active-active high-availability clusters, with second-level fault detection and automatic switching, achieving over 99.999% database availability.

In terms of security, the appliance has passed multiple standard tests, including Level 4 classified protection, commercial cryptography, and evaluations by institutions like the China Electric Power Research Institute, obtaining corresponding qualifications. It features security functions such as data confidentiality, permission control, attack resistance, and user behavior tracking. It supports data storage encryption and communication encryption, multiple encryption methods including software and cryptographic card encryption, and both international mainstream and Chinese national cryptographic algorithms, as well as three-role separation. Furthermore, it ensures platform security through multi-dimensional measures including platform user permission control, a multi-copy protection mechanism, platform operation log auditing, fully redundant design, automatic management node backup, multiple password policies, and a comprehensive alerting mechanism, providing solid protection for user data security.