Core System Replacement in Action: GBase Database Empowers a Leading Property Insurer to Strengthen Its Core Data Foundation
Related-party transactions, records management, and data services in the insurance industry all rely on stable database support. A large reinsurance company originally built its core systems on an open-source database. As business grew and security requirements tightened, it decided to fully replace it with a domestic database. GBase’s shared-storage database cluster, GBase 8s, with its high security, high reliability, easy scalability, and excellent compatibility, successfully took on this challenge, enabling a smooth and efficient system upgrade while keeping business operations running without disruption.
Project Background: Why Replace?
As regulatory requirements become more stringent, the insurance industry needs to further improve related-party transaction management, control risks, and maintain stable industry operations. To this end, a large reinsurance company initiated upgrades to its related-party transaction system, records management system, and internal data service platform.
At the same time, the push for domestic substitution accelerated, and the underlying database also needed to be upgraded to a self-controlled alternative. The original system was built on an open-source database, which could no longer meet future business needs in terms of security, reliability, or scalability. Therefore, the project set a clear requirement: all software and hardware must adopt domestic solutions, and the database must be entirely replaced with a domestic platform.
Solution: How GBase 8s Stepped In
The project goal was straightforward: migrate all existing open-source databases to a domestic platform without disrupting business operations while ensuring future scalability.
GBase 8s took on this task and delivered on three fronts:
Secure and Reliable: GBase 8s boasts financial-grade high security with strong failure recovery and data protection. Entrusting an insurance company’s core data to it brings peace of mind.
Easy Scalability: As business volumes grow, the database must not become a bottleneck. GBase 8s supports flexible scaling and can comfortably accommodate rising data volumes in the future.
Strong Compatibility: All existing applications, scripts, and data needed to be migrated. GBase 8s has continuously improved syntax compatibility with mainstream databases over the long term, allowing legacy scripts to be smoothly adapted and dramatically lowering migration difficulty.
Working alongside the application integration vendor, the GBase 8s team completed all script adaptation, migration, and upper-layer application migration—the entire process was smooth and seamless.
Results: How Did It Perform After the Switch?
The impact was immediate after the project went live:
Independence and Control: By moving from an open-source database to GBase 8s—from non-domestic to a self-developed solution—the system is now fully under their own control, ensuring information security.
Vendor-Direct Support: GBase provided comprehensive services, including data object migration, data migration, and application migration, to ensure successful project delivery.
Strong Compatibility: GBase 8s’s extensive syntax compatibility with mainstream databases means developers hardly need to relearn anything—their existing SQL skills remain fully applicable, leading to quick adoption with a low barrier to entry.
A domestic database upgrade is not about “starting from scratch”—it is about “seamless replacement.” With high security, easy scalability, and strong compatibility, GBase 8s helps insurance industry customers ensure business continuity while laying a solid, self-controlled foundation.