Abstract: New thinking in the era of cloud database, this post-90s big guy would like to invite you to talk.
This article is shared from huawei cloud community “after 90 dare to be a sweeping monk! Refuse to accept? April 24 to break the dragon gate!” , original author: Scheming fat.
What would our lives be like if the world’s databases disappeared overnight?
You can’t access your bank account, you can’t access your social security account, you can’t use your shopping cart, you can’t update your blog, you can’t get recommendations on your social media platform, you can’t access your body monitoring data on your smart watch…
Database, which will be computer science and easy to understand the cognitive data management of the perfect convergence of the discipline, since the beginning of the last world in the 1950s has gradually changed the way the world operates; Until now, it is difficult for us to leave the database. All our work and life need the close support of various databases.
Time pointer is slow, suddenly look back, the database industry has changed a lot. Since E.F.Cod, Ph.D., revealed the dynamic development of the database industry in 1962 with a paper called “Relational Data Models for Large Shared Databases”, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, E.F.Codd, Bob Miner, MichaelMonty Widenius, Eliot Horowits, BruceMomjian… Database has always been the pronoun of cattle, innovation.
Nowadays, the wave of digitalization is rolling in, cloud computing, big data, AI, Internet of Things and other new technologies are booming, so that the database has opened a new spring. There is no doubt that this is the best time for developers, and the rich database provides a wonderful stage for developers.
So, what are the important trends in the future of databases, and what database technologies should developers focus on? How do developers plan their careers in the cloud database era? It’s worth listening to the views of huawei cloud’s post-90 generation.
A post-90s kid who keeps jumping out of his comfort zone
Kevin is a typical post-90s. He is cheerful and willing to accept new things. He loves extreme sports and likes independent thinking.
With three master’s degrees in law, business and computer, Kevin joined a global cloud computing giant and explored the design and business planning of cloud computing products based on his educational background. After that, he returned to China and joined Huawei in 2019 to take charge of the planning of the entire Huawei cloud database products.
Kevin has a wide range of interests and hobbies, including fitness, motorcycle riding, lego building and model building. He believes that hobbies and work are not in conflict but complement each other. He often thinks about the future evolution of products and business ideas during daily exercise. In Kevin’s own words, it’s “mind and body growing together.”
Kevin’s career so far can be summed up as “moving out of his comfort zone.” From studying law, business and computer in college to planning database products, Kevin, a post-90s expert, said that developers need to have a clear goal in their career. They need to know what they are really suitable for and which technology they are most interested in. They need to pursue their future career and their own happiness.
Kevin, who keeps jumping out of his comfort zone, just embodies the fighting spirit of Huawei Cloud in the field of database. Last year, after twenty years of low-key cultivation in the field of database, Huawei Cloud carried out a radical reform of database strategy, set up seven regions around the world, 11 research institutes and more than 1000 database professionals, with Huawei cloud as the carrier, aimed at creating world-class database products.
Then, as the product director of Huawei cloud database, how does Kevin think about the future of database?
Cloud, full scenario, open source is the only way to database
Once upon a time, In the era of structured data, database All In One was considered as an important development direction In the era of commercial database. Nowadays, with the support of new technologies such as big data, AI and the Internet of Things, modern applications have exploded, and the database has ushered in the era of cloud database with all flowers blooming.
Kevin bluntly said that in the era of cloud database, cloud, full scene and open source are the three key words of database, which is also an important strategic direction for Huawei cloud to build world-class database.
Cloud computing is the future, and databases are no exception. Garnter predicts that by 2021, cloud databases will account for more than 50% of the total database market for the first time, and by 2023, 75% of databases will be in the cloud. Cloud database really reduces the complexity of installation, deployment, operation and management in the era of commercial database, and provides database as a cloud service to users, greatly reducing costs.
Take Meitu as an example. After the cloud is installed on the database, it can easily and efficiently respond to the massive and unexpected business requests from over 2 billion customers, which is unimaginable in the era of traditional commercial database. In addition, meitu’s database basic operation and maintenance efficiency is increased by 70%, and the average time of accessing the core business database is shortened by about 67%, greatly improving efficiency and reducing costs. Similar things are happening quickly in different industries.
As more and more applications run on cloud database, enterprises are increasingly calling for cloud database ecological compatibility, architecture evolution, soft and hard collaboration, transaction consistency, extreme expansion and other capabilities. “How to truly create a cloud native database product is the direction of Huawei cloud database team.” Kevin says.
To this end, Huawei Cloud GaussDB makes bold innovations at the technical level. Based on the storage and computing separation architecture, huawei cloud GaussDB supports multi-ecological compatibility, hierarchical decoupling, and data fusion to solve various challenges that cloud databases are prone to encounter, and to build enterprise-level capabilities with high availability, reliability, scalability, and security for government and enterprise users.
For example, huawei cloud GaussDB uses a technical architecture decoupled from the computing resource layer and storage resource layer to implement minute-level elastic scaling and second-level HA switchover. Provides cross-AZ deployment capabilities, cross-AZ read consistency access, geo-redundant, and remote replication capabilities.
Secondly, a large number of modern applications blowout, whether it is the user’s own business boundaries, or business application types and data, compared with the past have undergone tremendous changes, “one size fits all” relational database is increasingly “weak”, database full scene ability is becoming crucial.
Take Huawei cloud GaussDB as an example. Huawei cloud GaussDB has a comprehensive database product matrix, including relational databases GaussDB(for MySQL), GaussDB(for openGauss), and non-relational databases GaussDB NoSQL series, which cover all scenarios. Meet the requirements of financial, government and enterprise scenarios. In addition, huawei Cloud GaussDB supports various platforms, such as ARM and x86, and is optimized for different platforms to make full use of the hardware resources of bases with different architectures, ensuring secure and reliable load data in all scenarios.
In addition, open source is the future of database. In the era of commercial database, structured data and relational database are the main ones. Today, there are a variety of database types, such as relational, document, graph, sequential, and many more based on open source. As the saying goes, go fast if you want to, go far if you want to. In the face of such rich application scenarios in the digital world, we must make use of the power of open source to build a good ecosystem and meet the needs of users.
“An open ecosystem provides a way for database development. Huawei opened source openGauss standalone community version code last year, and we share huawei’s accumulated code and precipitation with all developers.” “Huawei Cloud values developers from large companies as well as individual developers, and we want all developers to join us to improve the database ecosystem,” Kevin said.
It is reported that openGauss is an open source relational database management system, to build an enterprise open source database community that can integrate diversified technical architecture. OpenGauss uses a Magnolia Loose license (Mulan PSL V2) that allows all community participants to modify, use, and reference code freely.
“Our strategy is to build a full-link product family and ecosystem through flagship product + tool ecosystem.” Kevin concludes.
Now, if you, as a developer, want to know more about Huawei Cloud GaussDB; Don’t miss the chance to meet Kevin on April 24.
April 24th, post-90s big guy waiting for you
On April 24, Huawei Developer Conference 2021 (Cloud) Floor monk Meeting, floor monk Kevin, born in the 1990s, will share “Market Trend and industry insight sharing of Cloud database” with developers. Kevin will discuss market trends and industry insights based on cloud database, database performance improvement and optimization, and ease of use of data management on the cloud.
“I’m looking forward to catching up with a bunch of developers who are younger and smarter than me on April 24.” Kevin said. “In addition to databases, topics like how to improve personal competitiveness and the future direction of China’s IT industry are also topics I am eager to communicate with developers.”
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