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“One day, quantum databases are one of the key technologies for us to transform other planets.”
Wang Yicheng, a senior product expert at Alicloud, speaks at the AliCloud 2018 Cloud Database Intelligent Future Conference in Beijing, Capital of China, Jan 17, 2018.
In addition to ali Cloud a new generation of NoSQL to NewSQL fusion, NewSQL product family release, in this conference is more interesting, Ali Cloud database team imagined the next 20 years of data development of the whole trend.
Analysis of Database practitioners in China
According to the China Developer Report by Alibaba’s Cloud Computing community, there are 5 million developers in China, working in different industries, in different regions and in different jobs. The number of database-related workers just surpassed 1 million in 2017, and only 3.2 percent of the 1 million database-related workers were women.
Meanwhile, database engineers have been single for 33 years on average after working for Internet companies.
Among the hot words that database engineers care about most, X is the highest. Some database engineers think it is Tesla Model X, while most data engineers think it is Xtep sneakers. Another database engineer said that every time after writing the code, he would write Xtep’s Solgan: Flying feeling in the comments. Indicates that the code is running smoothly.
Brand of the Year: Xtep
In the future, borders are being broken
Since the birth of the last century, database has profoundly affected the process of human activities. Today, from the birth of a baby, his information began to enter the relational database, the so-called relational database (SQL), is similar to the table we see everyday.
In the decades when the database was born, the relational database is the well-deserved boss, bank, telecommunications, government accounts, passwords, basic information, are stored in the relational database.
However, in the Internet era, the relationship between data has become more unstructured, and is not a simple corresponding relationship.
This is where NoSQL comes in. Its data structure is more like a brain map, and any one node can insert a variety of data. But today, new finance, new retail, new manufacturing, new technology, new energy, artificial intelligence, IoT new scenes continue to emerge, the boundary between SQL and NoSQL is disappearing, everyone hopes to have a future with both cache and persistent storage, and with query and analysis functions of the database.
Such a database, known as NewSQL, could be said to have no NewSQL: massively growing, flexible enterprise data is impossible.
With the release of Redis modularity, the NoSQL architecture is going New. People of the future will probably just need an online plug-in modular NewSQL database.
A few recent trends in NewSQL databases
Ali Cloud database senior product expert Wang Yicheng
Ali Cloud believes that pure software will die in the future NewSQL database, and the integration of software and hardware is the inevitable direction of NewSQL in the future, because the explosive development of hardware requires software optimization to fully release the limits of performance.
Like the iPhone, proprietary architecture + proprietary software will create a decade of success.
So in the future, the era of universal architecture will never return, and the architecture for database customization will be the mainstream. With fpgas, 25Gb networks, a new generation of processors, and high-performance storage engine optimization, NewSQL will be able to cope with the increasing pressure of massive computing.
At the same time, with the further integration of the world, the cloud database of the future should have the ability of global reading and writing
Database extortion incident flooding, the security situation is more serious
In the past 2017 years, nearly 5 billion data loss incidents took place in the world, in the case of Redis, community version only provide Redis source, does not provide a complete security system, the user in the absence of the network security capabilities are more vulnerable to attack, so future cloud vendors customised version of Redis will become more and more enterprise choice.
In the era of data explosion, every KB of data is becoming more and more valuable, and multi-availability area disaster recovery will become the standard configuration of database.
Ali Cloud has the world’s most complete cloud NewSQL database family
Ali Yunyun Database technology director CAI Songlu
Ali Cloud also owns mainstream NoSQL databases such as Redis, MongoDB, HBase and Memcache.
At present, 80% of China’s live video websites are on Aliyun Redis, a database 1000 times faster than flash disk, which is becoming the main database in China’s Internet with high traffic and high concurrency.
Today, ali cloud released Redis4.0, MongoDB3.4, HBase1.1 three new databases, officially to NewSQL began to fuse.
Through the innovative Redis Module, the database has the capability of “container ship” for the first time
Moreover, Aliyun has redesigned the architecture of Redis to realize multi-core operation from single-core operation in the past.
More importantly, data compression algorithms can save up to 50% of data storage space, which means a 50% savings in usage costs.
MongoDB3.4’s unique three-engine design makes it possible to adapt more scenes, and HBase1.1 has achieved three times the performance breakthrough of the community version. Not only that, ali cloud is also a major contributor to Redis community, ranking second for a long time.
Keeping up with the ever-changing future scenarios is the core competitiveness of Ali Cloud database
Recently, the popular live answer APP has become popular rapidly. Behind the popularity of this APP, many live answer apps have adopted The Redis product of Ali Cloud. In the opinion of Meng Fang, the architecture director of Ali Cloud, such sudden high concurrent flow is naturally suitable for running on The Redis database of Ali Cloud. Moreover, Ali Cloud can provide a complete solution from CDN, database to cloud host for the live answering APP. You can create your own live-streaming answer APP in a day. Moreover, ali Cloud’s overall technical capabilities enable it to enter emerging markets efficiently and quickly.
And Mr. Wang Tao, CTO of the famous Domestic giant Fir database, also came to the future conference, and shared the giant Fir’s view with everyone at the roundtable conference: the rapid development of NewSQL database will redefine the enterprise database.
Since this is the future conference, we must talk about the future
“The future of humanity, and database is closely linked.” In ali Cloud database intelligent future conference, Ali Cloud NoSQL product leader Wang Yicheng said.
These two seemingly unrelated issues were folded together in the future conference of Alliyun Database.
Humanity is experiencing a data explosion, with more data being generated in 2017 than in the entire history of mankind.
From engineers’ point of view, there just isn’t enough data.
The way crops are grown today will not be able to feed 9.5 billion people by 2035, when there will be 9.5 billion of us. The solution is obvious: on the one hand, genetically modify existing crops, and on the other, collect data on plants for cultivation through the Internet of things.
If it were possible to link up all the plants in China’s farmland for simple analysis, the database would be 7.7 exabytes in size. That 7.7 exabytes of data is just China’s arable land, but if we want to improve the world’s farmland, the amount of data will be much larger.
This is just the beginning. If human beings want to leave their carbon-based life and become silicon-based life in the future, the first problem to be solved is the storage of information of human neurons, which is up to 100 billion levels, and ZB level database is needed.
And the bigger story starts with a little fish tank: a fish tank can exist independently of a river because we simulate all the ecology of a river: temperature, salinity, water flow, nitrate concentration, oxygen content, etc.
So we have to wonder, if we’re going to explore and transform an alien system into earth, what kind of data processing and analysis would it take?
Atmospheric flows, ocean currents, crustal movements, illumination, each of these are huge amounts of NB-scale data.
At the end of the last century, the failure of Bio2 to simulate extraterrestrial life was a crucial factor in the lack of accurate grasp and analysis of data.
In today’s view, quantum database is one of the visible technical ways to crack these technical heights. Only by completely innovating the computer architecture and replacing conventional computing with quantum computing can it be possible to achieve db-level mass storage and perform mass analysis with the capacity of 1 million times of today’s highest performance database.
Before the Spring Festival of 2018, Ali Yunyun database made a prediction that quantum database is one of the key points of civilization leap in the next 100 years.
Maybe the future is not coming so fast, but you believe that the future must be on the way.
So, survival or continuance is the question of the database.