Featured in the 2026 Industry Landscape | GBase 8s SSC Shared Storage Cluster — Building a Financial-Grade High-Availability Foundation

At the 2026 Trusted Database Conference, the latest edition of the China Database Industry Landscape was released, featuring for the first time a dedicated category for shared-storage database architectures. GBASE's GBase 8s SSC (Shared Storage Cluster) was selected for this new category, earning authoritative industry recognition. As a domestic database architecture designed for mission-critical government and enterprise core systems, GBase 8s SSC delivers four key advantages — seamless migration, high availability, high concurrency, and cost efficiency — validated across demanding industry scenarios. It stands as a representative example of domestic databases evolving from "usable" to "enterprise-grade excellence." This article breaks down its core technical value and real-world deployment track record, drawing on actual case studies.

Evolving Architecture
Shared Storage Clusters Emerge as the New Frontier in Database Architecture

In today's rapidly iterating digital business environment, the database requirements of critical industries such as energy and finance have fundamentally shifted. Compared to traditional architectures — which suffer from limited scalability, weak disaster recovery capabilities, and high migration costs — modern mission-critical workloads demand business continuity, automated fault recovery, high concurrency capacity, and cost-effective localization (IT application innovation) readiness. In this context, shared-storage cluster architectures, which balance stability, performance, and cost, have become the mainstream choice for enterprises upgrading or replacing legacy database systems.

The addition of a dedicated shared-storage category in this year's industry landscape marks an official endorsement of the technology's value. GBase 8s SSC's inclusion in this authoritative landscape is not based on conceptual novelty, but on long-term, multi-scenario production deployments that prove domestic shared-storage databases can fully support the stringent demands of core business applications.

Four Core Capabilities
Hardcore Technology Addressing Four Key Enterprise Pain Points

In previous RAC migration projects, many database solutions on the market failed to strike the right balance between compatibility, stability, capacity, and cost — making it difficult for enterprises to achieve smooth, phased upgrades. GBase 8s SSC tackles these industry-wide challenges through four core technical capabilities, passing comprehensive business validation.

Painless Migration with Full Compatibility — Safeguarding Business Continuity

Database migration is one of the highest-risk phases in digital transformation for government and enterprise systems. Business interruptions, data inconsistency, and incomplete adaptation are common obstacles. To address this, GBase 8s SSC provides a transparent migration framework that combines full-volume historical data migration with real-time incremental data synchronization, allowing existing business systems to remain fully operational throughout the process — no downtime required.

With mature Oracle compatibility, the solution supports mainstream database data types, views, system packages, and PL/SQL core syntax, covering the full spectrum of business scenarios with no technical blind spots.

Post-migration, the system performs bidirectional data synchronization and dual-track parallel verification to fully validate business stability. A smooth cutover can be completed within two weeks, achieving zero downtime, zero data loss, and zero errors — eliminating migration risks at the source.

Fully Automated High Availability — Sub-Second Fault Recovery

Core transaction and scheduling systems demand extreme runtime stability; even millisecond-level glitches can trigger business disruptions. GBase 8s SSC adopts a multi-node cluster architecture, augmented by connection managers and cluster daemon processes, to deliver a fully automated disaster recovery framework.

When a single node experiences a fault, the system executes sub-second service failover, automatically routing traffic to healthy nodes with zero business impact and zero transaction interruption.

Additionally, the cluster automatically triggers recovery and restart processes for failed nodes without manual intervention, significantly reducing operational overhead. Through 7×24 hour continuous stress testing and extensive fault simulation, the high-availability capabilities of this architecture have been thoroughly validated — eliminating the complexities and downtime risks inherent in traditional database failure handling.

Elastic Load Scaling — Handling Peak Concurrency with Ease

During peak business periods, single-node databases often suffer from latency, bottlenecks, and transaction failures. GBase 8s SSC features intelligent traffic distribution, balancing loads across nodes via connection redirection to eliminate single-point performance bottlenecks.

In high-stress testing at 4,000 concurrent connections, the system maintained stable operations with all transactions processed normally — zero latency and zero transaction failures.

The architecture supports online elastic scaling, allowing rapid node addition and processing capacity expansion based on real-time traffic fluctuations. This flexibility adapts to peak-and-valley workload patterns, ensuring business stability during surges while avoiding resource idle waste — making it ideal for high-frequency, high-concurrency core scenarios in finance, energy, and beyond.

Lightweight Architecture — Cost-Effective Without Compromising Performance

In localization and system upgrade initiatives, cost control is a critical consideration. GBase 8s SSC offers broad hardware compatibility, allowing enterprises to leverage existing shared storage, switches, and other infrastructure — eliminating the need for large-scale procurement of expensive new hardware and significantly reducing infrastructure upgrade costs.

With automated fault recovery and intelligent load balancing, the system reduces manual intervention frequency and labor costs, delivering substantial long-term operational savings. Across real-world deployments, GBase 8s SSC has achieved over 50% total cost reduction (deployment + operations) compared to traditional database solutions — striking an optimal balance between high performance, high stability, and low cost.

Proven in Production
Validation Through Benchmark Deployments Across Critical Industries

The true measure of technical capability lies in real-world production deployments. GBase 8s SSC is not a lab experiment — it is a mature solution forged through years of production use in finance, civil affairs, transportation, and other critical sectors.

• China Civil Affairs Golden People Project Phase I: Mission-Critical Data That Cannot Afford Failure

Systems such as national marriage registration, social assistance, elderly care services, charitable fundraising, and child welfare share one thing in common: a single error or one minute of downtime directly impacts real people. The Golden People Project Phase I was a major initiative by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs to modernize civil affairs informatization, involving massive volumes of population-related data with stringent requirements for database stability and business continuity.

GBase 8s was deployed across the civil affairs government cloud data center, with SSC cluster technology powering the unified service reception system and social assistance business systems. When a single node fails, automatic failover occurs seamlessly — business operations remain completely unaffected throughout. One SSC cluster delivers optimal performance with minimal hardware resources, while also saving on data center space, power consumption, and operational staff — the "hidden costs" that often go unnoticed.

• Bank of Kunlun: The Stability Backbone for Ten+ Core Systems

Bank of Kunlun handles mission-critical operations including cross-border settlement and supply chain finance — combining the attributes of both a commercial bank and an energy-sector bank. This dual profile imposes high system pressure and extreme reliability requirements.

The bank selected GBase 8s SSC to host ten-plus business systems spanning management and transaction categories. A single shared storage instance is accessible by multiple nodes, with remaining nodes automatically taking over if any node fails. As business grows, nodes can be added online without service interruption. The SSC cluster delivers overall high availability at lower hardware costs, running reliably in a fully localized (domestic) technology stack — providing a robust technical foundation for financial core applications.

From four core technical breakthroughs to long-term production deployments across finance, civil affairs, and other critical sectors, GBase 8s SSC has demonstrated through real-world results the proven strength of domestic shared-storage databases — breaking the industry's historical reliance on foreign solutions in mission-critical environments. Going forward, GBASE will continue to deepen architectural innovation, refine product stability and adaptability, and deliver superior domestic database solutions that empower digital transformation and IT application innovation across industries — driving the domestic database industry toward high-quality, high-value breakthroughs.