Alibaba Cloud sees demand for cloud databases

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.

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, was introduced to the market to benefit the wider Alibaba Cloud ecosystem and public customers. Lindorm has affordable storage and flexible processing characteristics, Alibaba Cloud said. It is ideal for applications with massive processing requirements and a mix of unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data. Lindorm can reduce storage costs for enterprises by as much as 80% as compared with using conventional databases, with an availability guarantee of at least 99.99%, the company said.

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. With the upgrades, it is now able to execute concurrent, massive online transaction requests, and at the same time, help online businesses to accelerate complex analyses with efficient processing by five to 10 times - this is ideal for companies that require extremely fast data and transaction processing functionalities such as logistics platforms.

AnalyticDB (ADB) is a flexible cloud-native data warehouse that is able to integrate 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 to reduce cost and increase operation stability. With its multi-master and high concurrency Laser engine, ADB MySQL is able to power real time computation needs with enterprise cost reduced by 50-80%.

Cloud-native Data Lake Analytics (DLA) released upgraded features with its Serverless Spark to pull up 300 knots* in a minute. With its serverless Presto and Spark computation engine, it provides enterprises with a one-stop (serverless) data lake platform that is efficient and easy to use with features such as one-click lake formation, metadata discovery and management, and delta lake management. Both ADB and DLA has been successfully deployed in various industries including finance, manufacturing, retail, aviation and logistics to help their digital transformation processes.

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.”

Alibaba Cloud is the third-largest cloud computing company in the world, and its database technologies currently serve more than 100,000 companies globally. 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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