GBASE & Phytium: Unleashing "Database" & "Chip" Power, Giving New Life to Historical Data

As economic globalization accelerates, data volumes have exploded in recent years, and traditional database software can no longer meet increasingly diverse business demands. The market urgently needs a dedicated data warehouse to address the backlog of historical data, reducing its impact on operational databases, unlocking valuable insights, and boosting database performance—ultimately providing comprehensive, multi-level decision support for financial and telecommunications institutions while enabling them to deliver better services. In response to this trend, GBASE (General Data Technology) and Phytium jointly created a large-scale distributed analytical database solution. GBase 8a MPP Cluster (GBase 8a) is a distributed data warehouse from GBASE built for business analytics and business intelligence, and it is the first distributed relational database cluster product in China to support converged data processing.

This solution deploys GBase 8a on the Phytium Tengyun S2500 processor, fully harnessing its unique federated architecture, massive parallel data distribution, high-efficiency compression, optimized storage structures, smart indexing, flexible data distribution, and online high-performance scaling. It effectively delivers core advantages—high concurrency, high availability, strong security, easy maintenance, and high-speed loading—providing a professional massive data storage platform that is ideally suited for analytical application scenarios.

This solution is jointly launched by GBase and Phytium. GBase 8a is a columnar, distributed logical data warehouse built on an MPP + Shared Nothing federated architecture. Nodes communicate via TCP/IP networks, with each node using local disk storage. The management, scheduling, and computing clusters can be deployed asymmetrically. GBase 8a is the largest MPP database cluster to have passed all 51 test cases in the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) big data product large-scale capability basic benchmark, and GBase (General Data Technology Co., Ltd.) is also the first Chinese database vendor to complete a specialized performance benchmark at a scale of 4,096 nodes. The solution is built on the Phytium Tengyun S2500 platform, using 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking across multiple nodes to deploy GBase 8a MPP Cluster. Deployment architecture

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GBase 8a, deployed on Phytium's domestic computing platform, underwent comprehensive functional tests including scale-out and scale-in, service management, upgrades, node replacement, backup and recovery, DBLink access, VC management and mirroring, data loading and export, and user security. Performance tests using TPC-H and TPC-DS tools with 1TB and 3TB datasets met expectations. Moreover, GBase 8a passed long-duration stability tests: mixed concurrent workloads of DDL, DML, and queries on TB-scale data, based on TPC-H and TPC-DS models, along with data redistribution. Throughout the tests, no result set errors or node anomalies occurred. The overall solution satisfies massive data storage and analytics demands, maintains 24/7 uninterrupted operation with zero data loss, and meets security requirements.

The joint solution from GBASE and Phytium fully harnesses the powerful computing capabilities of Phytium processors to maximize database performance. Built on an entirely indigenous and secure technology stack, it is more secure and reliable, effectively addressing real-world business pain points for industry customers. The synergy of software and hardware helps organizations revitalize legacy data and unlock its latent value.

Since its founding in 2004, GBASE has focused on core database technologies, building a product and service portfolio covering the full data management lifecycle—analytical, transactional, distributed, and cloud data warehouse solutions. GBASE has delivered products and services to over 10,000 users across more than 100 industries, including finance, telecommunications, government, energy, transportation, and national defense. "Doers achieve, travelers arrive." Moving forward, GBASE will continue to develop and iterate core technologies, working with ecosystem partners to provide multi-scenario, high-performance, and highly reliable products and services.

 Phytium Technology Co., Ltd.

Phytium is a leading provider of homegrown core chips in China, dedicated to the design, development, and industrialization of the Phytium series of high-performance, low-power general-purpose microprocessors. Adhering to the philosophy of "independent innovation in core technologies and an open, collaborative industry ecosystem," Phytium partners with numerous domestic software and hardware vendors to deliver complete information system solutions based on internationally mainstream standards and China's own advanced technologies—safeguarding national information security and critical industrial safety.

Phytium CPU-based systems cover a wide range of devices—desktops, all-in-ones, laptops, thin clients, servers, and embedded industrial control products—and have been deployed at scale in China across government offices, cloud computing, big data, and information systems in finance, energy, rail transit, and other industries.