[October 13th CNS]Alibaba-affiliated online payment platform “Ant Financial” announced on the 2nd that OceanBase, the company’s proprietary database, has set a world record in the TPC-C database standard performance test. The result was twice that of the previous world record holder, Oracle. The most authoritative international database organization, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), has announced the latest results on its official website.

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TPC-C is an evaluation standard recognized by mainstream computer and database manufacturers around the world, and is called the “World Cup of databases.”

Li Guojie, an academician and computer expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said, “OceanBase’s ability to break the world record for the TPC-C standard performance test, which had been held by Oracle for nine years, is a great achievement. “This represents a historic step forward in China’s basic software.”

Alibaba, which defeated Oracle by a margin of more than 2 to 1 this time, was once an excellent customer of Oracle in China, and more than 98% of the software and business used by Taobao and Alipay are Oracle data. received the provided services.

However, as the online shopping event for Singles’ Day (November 11th) has turned into a gigantic business, and online shopping is rapidly growing, continuing to use Oracle will cost billions of yen. A serious issue of necessity has emerged.

In the end, Alibaba chose to develop it independently. At that time, there was a database development team, but there were only 20 people, and the person in charge of the team was a database developer at another company who had been fired for two years without achieving any results. Many people didn’t expect it. Meanwhile, Oracle had more than 100,000 engineers and more than 2,000 people doing core database research and development. It can be said that Alibaba’s management was patient enough.

Currently, OceanBase is widely used in Ant Financial and Alibaba’s business systems. Since 2017, the OceanBase database has been open to the public, and its services are also provided to financial institutions such as banks and insurance. (c)CNS-Science and Technology Daily/JCM/AFPBB News