Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has seen the demand for its database family of products double year-over-year. The increase was fuelled by the growing industrial need to move business operations online given the lasting impact of COVID-19.
Alibaba Cloud is the third-largest cloud computing company in the world, and its database technologies currently serve more than 100,000 companies globally. Erwin Foo, Group CTO of PrestoMall said: "As one of the leading e-commerce players in Malaysia, we are constantly looking to adopt future proof and affordable solutions to enhance our platform and provide more unique and remarkable experience for our customer. Due to the complexity of the e-commerce platforms, we need a reliable, robust and scalable database that can enable the growth of our dynamic business without worrying too much about the infrastructure and support needed."
To support customers’ digital transformation journeys, the Alibaba Cloud database team launched a series of new products and feature upgrades at Apsara Conference 2020. These include a family of cloud-native database products covering online transaction processing (OLTP), online analytical processing (OLAP), No Structured Query Language (NoSQL) tools and utilities, and a self-driving database platform. The products are designed to provide a rich solution portfolio within the database ecosystem for the complete data lifecycle, from data processing and storage to management, and analytics.
- Lindorm, the cloud-native multimodal database that used to support the Alibaba Group ecosystem, is ideal for applications with massive processing requirements and a mix of unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data.
- Alibaba Cloud’s self-proprietary cloud-native distributed database product PolarDB-Xis was upgraded with hybrid transaction/analytical processing capabilities and a global secondary index for distributed data.
- AnalyticDB (ADB) is a flexible cloud-native data warehouse that integrates online interactive analytics and offline computation operations. In addition, AnalyticDB MySQL (ADB MySQL) can meet the resource requirement of users’ workloads with its elasticity, real-time consumption, data storage and group isolation.
Cloud-native Data Lake Analytics (DLA) released upgraded features with its Serverless Spark to pull up 300 knots* in a minute. Both ADB and DLA has been successfully deployed in various industries including finance, manufacturing, retail, aviation and logistics to help their digital transformation processes.
“In the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant report, Gartner merged the DMSA (Data Management Solution for Analytics) and OPDBMS (Operational DBMS) magic quadrants into a single Cloud DBMS magic quadrant, and this indicates where the future lies for database technology,” said Dr Feifei Li, President of Alibaba Cloud Database Products Business.
“We want our customers to ride on the future trends, and we will continue to innovate and provide our customers with the best database technology so that together, we can build a solid foundation in their digital transformation process.”
According to Gartner, cloud databases will prevail in the near future and by 2023, 75% of all databases will be on a cloud platform**. In the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems, Alibaba Cloud Database was recognised as a player in the Challengers quadrant.
*A knot is a designated data point used in regressions, which are a mathematical technique used for analytics.
**Our Top Data and Analytics Predicts for 2019.
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