Strong Alliance! GBASE and Huawei Storage jointly release a high-availability database solution for mission-critical financial systems.

On June 29, GBASE and Huawei Storage jointly launched the “Financial Core-Grade Database High Availability Solution.” Built on a disaggregated compute and storage architecture with shared storage, the solution combines Huawei OceanStor all-flash storage with GBASE’s shared-storage database cluster GBase 8s. It delivers the high performance and high availability required by financial core systems, accelerating the technology transformation of critical infrastructure in financial services, telecom, and other key industries.

Gu Xuejun, Vice President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line, delivered a speech at the event. He noted that databases, as core enterprise applications, are the foundation for the digital economy. The financial industry has always been at the forefront of digital transformation. Both traditional core banking and new internet-based financial services demand ever-higher database efficiency and stability. The joint innovation between Huawei Storage and GBASE can already meet these demands for reliability, performance, and energy efficiency in the upgrade of core financial systems, helping to expedite enterprise-level database modernization.

Gu Xuejun, Vice President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line

Cui Zhiwei, General Manager of the GBase 8s Product Division at General Data Technology Co., Ltd. (GBASE), stated that since its founding in 2004, GBASE has focused on database product R&D and services. Like Huawei, GBASE is a leading infrastructure vendor that has been deeply rooted in China's IT infrastructure technology for many years and has reached industry-leading levels. The industry now faces a historic inflection point for modernizing legacy core systems — a challenge as well as an opportunity. Continuous collaborative innovation between storage and database technologies will further drive the upgrade and transformation of China's critical infrastructure core systems.

Cui Zhiwei, General Manager of GBase 8s Product Division

Later at the conference, Yan Hao, Director of the OceanData Solution under Huawei Data Storage Product Line, detailed the key technologies and roadmap of the joint solution. Based on a disaggregated compute and storage architecture with shared storage, the solution deeply integrates GBASE’s advanced database cluster technology with the globally leading high-availability and high-performance capabilities of Huawei OceanStor all-flash storage, creating a database high-availability solution that meets the demands of financial core-grade systems.

Yan Hao, Director of OceanData Solution, Huawei Data Storage Product Line

The joint innovation solution from GBASE and Huawei has already been deployed and is running stably in the core business system of a city commercial bank in Southwest China. Looking ahead, both parties will deepen their cooperation, driving continuous innovation in areas such as the deep integration of HAC and storage active-active technologies, and enabling multi-read and multi-write database capabilities based on the Cantian engine. The goal is to deliver core database solutions with even better performance and reliability, accelerating the resilience upgrade of China's critical information infrastructure. GBASE remains focused on core database technologies and will keep joining hands with ecosystem partners to strengthen the Chinese application ecosystem and inject sustained momentum into China’s digital economy and enterprise digital transformation.

About GBase 8s

GBase 8s is a mature and stable shared-storage database cluster independently developed by GBASE with proprietary intellectual property rights. The product meets the Level 4 standards for secure databases (International B2 level), supports Chinese national cryptographic algorithms, and complies with international database specifications and development interfaces such as SQL92/99, ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, GCI (OCI/OCCI), and Python. It supports multiple deployment modes, including centralized deployment, shared-storage high-availability deployment, and geo-redundant active-active deployment across three sites. GBase 8s features high capacity, high concurrency, and high performance.

Designed for OLTP scenarios, GBase 8s is ideally suited for core business systems in banking and telecommunications, information systems with high-security requirements in sectors such as national security, government, and defense, as well as operational and management information systems for large enterprises. It delivers 24/7 non-stop processing capabilities. Proven through numerous user deployments and projects, GBase 8s can fully replace mainstream international databases and meet diverse user needs.