Focusing on critical business scenarios, GBASE has partnered with H3C to launch an integrated solution.

Recently, GBASE (General Data Technology Co., Ltd.) and H3C Group, a subsidiary of Unisplendour Corporation, completed joint testing and validation of a solution that combines GBase 8s, GBASE's shared-storage database cluster, with H3C mission-critical servers and all-flash storage. In typical OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) scenarios, the solution delivered performance on par with mainstream international commercial databases running on traditional minicomputer and storage systems, showcasing the practicability of the joint offering and the advanced technical strengths of both parties.

This jointly developed mission-critical database solution deeply integrates H3C Group’s digital infrastructure with GBase 8s, delivering three breakthrough advantages—end-to-end high performance, assured continuous availability, and simplified management for cost reduction and efficiency. It provides a proven remedy for financial services, telecom operators, government, and enterprises to modernize legacy database systems.

• End-to-End High Performance: Supports scale-up from 2‑socket to 32‑socket configurations, providing critical performance assurance for non‑distributed databases. A new end‑to‑end I/O architecture built around NVMe flash storage eliminates key bottlenecks.

• Assured Continuous Availability: Leverages a proven host platform with the highest IDC availability rating; application‑aware intelligent storage with a 100% storage availability guarantee; and comprehensive solutions including storage active‑active, three‑site disaster recovery, flash backup, and offline backup to meet a wide range of RPO/RTO objectives.

• Simplified Management for Cost Reduction and Efficiency: A high‑performance scale‑up host platform paired with low‑latency storage reduces bottlenecks while improving CPU consolidation ratios, lowering CPU licensing costs. Efficient data reduction technologies increase usable capacity share, cutting disk procurement expenses. A cloud‑native intelligent storage platform with deep database insight simplifies deployment and operations.

As a widely recognized mission-critical database, GBase 8s meets China\'s highest database security certification Level 4 (equivalent to international B2). It supports international database standards and interfaces such as SQL92/99, ODBC, and JDBC. Supporting shared storage clusters and two-site three-center high-availability deployment, it is ideal for OLTP scenarios—including core business systems in finance and telecom, and operational and management information systems in large enterprises. In most cases, GBase 8s enables organizations to replace international mainstream databases and shared-storage clusters with a domestic alternative.

GBase 8s Architecture

Multi-read Multi-write

GBase 8s uses the log-based asynchronous tool Enterprise Replication (ER) to copy data between database servers. ER on the source server reads the logical log, stores transactions, and reliably transmits each transaction as replicated data to the target server. Its flexible architecture enables message broadcasting from one source to multiple targets, or message aggregation from multiple sources to one target. Based on actual business structures, it also supports bidirectional data replication among multiple servers, keeping data synchronized in real time across all nodes.

Two-Site Three-Center

The primary site deploys an SSC cluster for load balancing, with multiple nodes within the cluster providing read and write services. The intra-city disaster recovery site deploys HAC nodes for hot standby, ensuring rapid failover if the primary site goes down. The remote disaster recovery site deploys RHAC nodes, enabling disaster recovery over thousands of kilometers. All centers are managed centrally through the CM Connection Manager.

Compared to pieced-together foundational platforms, the mission-critical database solution jointly created by GBASE and H3C has fully validated and optimized the compute, storage, backup, and database management system components, offering stronger synergy. It can efficiently and stably support mission-critical systems in industries such as finance, telecommunications, and healthcare.

Optimal Compute for Mission-Critical Workloads: The HPE Superdome Flex delivers RAS characteristics comparable to minicomputers, with the industry’s highest availability certification — the AL4 rating. It adopts an open x86 architecture, supporting up to 32 processors, 48TB of memory, and 128 PCIe slots, delivering extreme performance far beyond traditional minicomputers. Its unique modular design and galvanic isolation-based physical partitioning enable lower starting costs and agile response to changing business pressures, helping drive sustainable IT infrastructure growth.

Redefining Mission-Critical Storage: The H3C CF22000 G2 all-flash storage achieves end-to-end intelligence through massive telemetry, application awareness, and global AI/ML, proactively preventing failures and ensuring 100% availability. Its multi-node active-active interconnect architecture boosts concurrent performance while improving storage reliability. With a service-centric OS, it eliminates integration and upgrade risks and enables agile resource provisioning — customers simply replace controller nodes for storage upgrades, giving storage cloud-like attributes and redefining mission-critical storage.

Mutually Reinforcing Backup Capabilities: H3C CB7000X, a scale-out backup system, complements the backup capabilities of the GBase8s database. It uses a 4+2 erasure coding scheme that can tolerate the failure of an entire node or two drives simultaneously, delivering higher recoverability. Nodes can be added individually, enabling true pay-as-you-go expansion for greater flexibility. Multi-node concurrent read/write achieves up to 1.8GB/s with 3 nodes, providing higher backup performance.

As key partners in the database field, GBASE (General Data Technology) and H3C have maintained close collaboration, completing compatibility and testing work on numerous joint solutions. Looking ahead, GBASE and H3C will continue to deepen cooperation, upholding the principle of complementary strengths and mutual development, to launch more integrated solutions that meet market expectations and are more competitive, empowering digital transformation across industries.