Transactions Never Stop, Data Never Lost | GBase 8s Shines at DTCC 2025, Building a Solid Foundation for Core Financial System IT Application Innovation

From August 21 to 23, 2025, the 16th China Database Technology Conference (DTCC 2025), hosted by IT168 and its technical communities ITPUB and ChinaUnix, was grandly held in Beijing. GBASE (General Data Technology Co., Ltd.) showcased its full-stack innovative products and technology achievements and deeply participated in the core agenda of the conference. On the afternoon of the 21st, the “GBASE Exclusive Session” was successfully held. At the same time, Guo Zhuo, Head of the GBase 8s Product Department, shared the innovative practice of how GBase 8s empowers core financial systems to achieve “Transactions Never Stop, Data Never Lost” in the session “The Road to Independent and Controllable Databases (Part 1).”

Under the theme “Intelligent Innovation, Winning the Future with Data,” the conference featured 2 main venues and over 16 technical sessions, focusing on hot topics such as independent and controllable database architecture design, database kernel analysis, distributed databases, cloud-native databases, real-time data warehousing, AI for DB, Data+AI, vector databases, and RAG retrieval. Over a hundred industry technical experts were invited to share cutting-edge technologies and practical case studies, delivering an annual technical feast.

GBase 8s: Transactions Never Stop, Data Never Lost

Guo Zhuo, Head of the GBase 8s Product Department at General Data Technology, delivered a keynote speech titled “Transactions Never Stop, Data Never Lost: GBase 8s Empowers IT Application Innovation Transformation for Core Financial Systems” in the “The Road to Independent and Controllable Databases (Part 1)” session.

To address challenges such as high adaptation costs, performance and stability under high concurrency, and talent shortages during the IT application innovation transformation of core financial systems, GBase 8s leverages four core value engines to build a comprehensive, multi-layered financial-grade database solution.

High Compatibility with Mainstream Databases: Supports data types, functions, syntax, semantics, and advanced features of databases such as Oracle and MySQL, maximizing reuse of existing code and development experience, effectively reducing migration costs and technical risks.

Full-Stack High-Availability Cluster Technology: Offers shared storage clusters (SSC), primary-standby clusters (HAC), remote disaster recovery clusters (RHAC), and a multi-master architecture based on table replication (ER). Failover is completed automatically within seconds, achieving 99.999% availability.

Robust Ecosystem Support: Features a full-process toolchain covering database monitoring and management, cross-platform data migration, and real-time data synchronization. It is compatible with domestic upstream and downstream software and hardware, backed by an active community and engineering ecosystem.

Industry-Leading Performance for Production Workloads: The storage engine uses memory-based MVCC to break through I/O bottlenecks and disk bloat. It supports ultra-fast primary-standby switchover with an RTO of under 3 seconds under stress testing, scaling concurrency to tens of thousands.

Guo Zhuo emphasized that GBase databases have deeply penetrated the core financial sector, forming a comprehensive ecosystem covering banking, securities, insurance, and payment clearing. Its users range from central banks to large state-owned banks, joint-stock banks, and local banks, supporting core transactions, payment clearing, risk control, and other scenarios. With the deepening of IT application innovation, “Transactions Never Stop, Data Never Lost” is no longer a distant goal. Looking ahead, GBase will continue to enhance product performance and service quality, steadily advancing on the path of conquering core systems in critical fields.

In-Depth Dialogue: A Decade of GBase 8s Development and Industry Deployment

During the conference, Cui Zhiwei, General Manager of the GBase 8s product line, gave an exclusive interview to the ITPUB community. In this in-depth dialogue centering on “A Decade of GBase 8s Development: From Code Exploration to Ecosystem Maturity, Compatibility, and Low-Level Optimization,” the two sides also fully discussed topics such as “The Coexistence Trend of Centralized and Distributed Databases” and “Factors in Enterprise Database Selection and the Future Market Ecosystem of Domestic Databases.” The discussion included breakdowns of technical details and pragmatic reflections on industry pain points. We will compile the complete interview transcript to systematically present the full exchange.