Ordering take-out, listening to an online song, buying a winter suit, scrutinizing payments... In the digital economy, these scenarios have become the most common part of life. Behind the rapid development of the digital economy, which means the generation and processing of big data, is a technology of particular importance, known as the “root technology” of the digital economy, which is an important link between the top application and the bottom base resource, namely database technology。
With the advent of the digital economy, databases are as important as chips. In the areas of internet, material networking, big data, etc., data use is becoming more widespread. As a result of the growing demand and challenges, database technology has received increasing attention and investment。
The database, which can be understood as an “electronicized file cabinet”, stores and manages data according to the data structure, as well as basic software, which is as important as the operating system. As a result, database technology has also been one of the priority areas of the national “nuclear high-base” project, with finance, government, the internet and operators being the main market for its applications。
Over time, giants such as microsoft and oracle have had a strong influence in this area, but this situation is gradually changing as the national production database continues to innovate。
So, what changes have been made to our database technology? What are the trends in overall industry development today? What are the future opportunities? Today, please follow china science and technology。
All data must run in the database
Every day, people socialize, eat, play, pay, taxi and other daily activities, with a variety of applications. All the data behind this must run in the database。
Databases, which refer to software systems used to manage and store data, are one of the major infrastructures in the modern information society. It is no exaggeration to say that the database is a matter of national livelihood. Mass data are generated at every moment in society's operations, and their storage, management and transfer are dependent on databases。
By definition, the database is organized, stored and managed by a repository of data, typically consisting of one or a group of files in the computer; by its very nature, the computer addresses data computing and data-processing issues, while the database is the specialized system for managing data resources in the computer application system; and, by its structure, the database is one of the three basic computer software (operating systems, databases, intermediates), which is designed to provide the full hardware computing power down and to support the application needs up the top, which is the key basis for the efficient operation of the information system。
A vivid example provides a better understanding of the concept of “database”: data are electricity, and to deliver electricity to thousands of households requires an enabling platform with an electrical infrastructure, a database that is an important element of the infrastructure and has a pioneering role。
However, domestic database technologies, particularly those applied in the financial and telecommunications sectors, have been firmly held by some foreign products and are relatively weak in the field of domestic databases. The database is one of the 35 key technologies of the country's “card neck”. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, oracle and ibm have entered the chinese market and until 2000 our database market was largely monopolized by overseas products。
After 2009, with the development of internet technology and the rise of the wave of “ioe”, an alternative to national production of databases was opened. Thus, 2009 is also known as the year of chinese database technology。
Over the past decade, with the growth of demand for large data markets, the sinking of database technology and the support of domestic production policies, a domestic pool of cloud and emerging independent producers has begun to emerge, and many software manufacturers, integrated manufacturers, operators, etc. Have begun to enter the market and develop their database capacity. In particular, over the past three years, with the accelerated development of database technology and industry, our country has entered the global “master battlefield”。
Nationalization will be gradually achieved over the next 2-3 years
Since the advent of the digital age, and as the process of the digital transformation of our industry continues and the digital economy flourishes, more complex and diverse applications have emerged, placing higher demands on database technology and providing a continuous space for upgrading national production databases。
Referring to the rapid development in the field of databases, the experts considered that, over the past three years, the national production database had continued to develop, gradually entering core industries and systems. However, the emergence of enterprises in national production databases is not the technology itself but the ecological construction of the databases。
Depending on the data model, the database can be divided into relational (sql) and non-relationship (nosql). Among them, the relationship database, as a traditional database product, was born earlier than the non-relationship database, and the product system became more mature and dominant in our database market。
In this context, efforts have been made in the area of national production databases to break the foreign monopoly of technology and water testing to break new technologies, and the replacement of core systems in the financial and political spheres has begun. In recent years, domestic internet, communications technology giants, telecommunication and ali companies have also accelerated the layout of the database industry, using cloud computing advantages to develop relevant database services。
As an example, at present, more than 20 financial institutions with the help of the telecommunication cloud database tdsql have completed the replacement of their core systems, facilitating the domesticization of the core financial database into a scaled replication phase. The new core business system of zhang jia hong kong farmer bank, based on tdsql, is the first time that domestic banks have adopted a national distribution database in the context of traditional core business systems, breaking the long-standing reliance on foreign databases in this area。
Moreover, more than 200 national production database manufacturers have been active in four categories of market participants, including traditional database producers, cloud service giants, emerging start-ups and cross-border players。
The experts predict that the domestication of databases will go through a very rapid process over the next two to three years, in which the areas of finance, government and so on are expected to lead the way towards full domestic substitution。
It's gonna take some time to grind the supercar around the instat bend
In recent years, the national production database has entered a state of flowering, driven by a wave of digital economy and digital infrastructure. It is projected that china's database market will continue to grow at a high rate during the “1455” period, with the gradual release of information needs for the industry as a result of the mitigation of the new coronary outbreak; at the same time, national projects such as new infrastructure and east china and the west will contribute to the growing size of the database market, which is expected to reach 60. 6 billion yuan by 2025。
The database of national production enters the main battlefield and cannot be without its strength. In recent years, the national production database has been autonomous and independent, and significant progress has been made in terms of the price, performance and functionality of the database products, as well as in industrial ecology. According to the chinese engineering academy, the national production database continues to break down performance bottlenecks, as a result of the long-term commitment to basic software in china and as a key step towards technological self-reliance。
With regard to developments in the field of databases, many experts believe that, with intensive national policies in place, china's database industry is entering a virtuous phase of development, while at the same time requiring that key technologies in the database evolve in the direction of reducing costs and increasing accessibility, ensuring data security, enhancing functionality and meeting emerging business needs。
There are also voices that argue that it takes time and opportunity to bend over the national production database. Despite the variety of products in our database and its basis for sustainable development, the maturity of the products needs to be improved, long-term investments in ecological construction are needed, and the development of open-source communities in the country is a key route. For the national production database, technological breakthroughs can only continue to be achieved through sustained grinding of various applications。
