Yuncu with a variety of clouds, in the cloud service "Mercedes"

in recent years, with the development of science and technology, business expansion, more and more enterprises feel that they are losing control of their data. is a database that is one of the important core components of IT systems, carrying important information data. The data form multiplication, the data capacity growth rate is also very astonishing, lets the enterprise's data environment almost cannot bear. At the same time, the day-to-day backup, optimization, expansion, and high availability working hours of the DBA (database administrator) are cyclical, as data maintenance management becomes increasingly onerous.

How can we solve the above problems? As cloud computing technology hits the ground, cloud databases may do the job of saving. In this regard, China's software network for the "Cloud Library technology can bring new opportunities" topic, and industry experts and enterprises in-depth discussion. Fung Ke, the technical director of Shenzhou General Corporation, a leading manufacturer of data storage technology in China, has some ideas.

Cloud Library leads the future

Fung Ke has more than ten years engaged in domestic database system design and practice experience, as the main responsible and technical backbone, undertook a number of national nuclear Shishou and 863 database major special and industrial projects. When it comes to the advantages of Yuncu compared to traditional databases, Fung Ke said: "The so-called cloud library, the personal view is able to better adapt to the cloud computing model of the database management system." The biggest advantage of cloud service should be cost advantage, cloud service is not what new thing actually, have certain similarity with the server hosting mode that the telecommunication industry provides now. Cloud Services This model is particularly attractive to small and medium-sized enterprises, with their own investment in building a dedicated enterprise information system compared to the use of cloud services, to achieve a centralized resource allocation and management, to better meet the changing needs of users, to achieve on-demand procurement, configuration, to avoid waste of resources. At the same time, a professional technical staff to help you take care of, reduce management and maintenance costs, system reliability, scalability, stability will also be better. ”

Fung Ke that with the development of cloud computing technology and the gradual market recognition of cloud service model, cloud computing will certainly affect the development trend of traditional database. But there may not be a new cloud library to replace the traditional database management system, but the traditional database can better adapt to the problem of cloud computing. Fung Ke points to the three obvious trends in the future of the Cloud Library:

First, Fung Ke that with the spread of cloud services, customers using cloud services will no longer focus on databases, and database vendors will be more exposed to cloud services providers. Second, the application of cloud computing can not be separated from the database, but the traditional database management system must better adapt to the cloud computing model, such as resource configuration management, virtualization support and high scalability. As a result, Oracle and Microsoft have launched database products that support cloud computing, but these products are also an extension of their traditional database products. It can be foreseen that the cloud and the traditional database will not be fragmented, the traditional database is also in the continuous development, and to provide better support for Yuncu. Thirdly, Yuncu also has its own shortcomings. For example, the public cloud, data transmission relies on network bandwidth, not suitable for large data enterprise-level applications, and the current popular NoSQL database can not meet the needs of a large number of relational database applications, some enterprises data confidentiality requirements are still the key to solve the problem. At the same time, enterprises to build their own private cloud, must be centralized resources for a number of departments to serve, only the larger enterprises have the strength to do.

When it comes to whether the future of YUNCU is private or public, Fung Ke said: "At present, Shenzhou General in the cloud storage support is working with the dawn, China-Enterprise and other companies to provide database support for their cloud computing platform." Provide virtualization, automated deployment and management in Avatar database products, massive structured and unstructured data processing in a cloud environment; In general, public cloud libraries are better suited for small businesses, and large enterprises like telecoms and finance will tend to build their own private cloud platforms, which requires the support of database vendors. "At the same time, the business of these enterprises can not be separated from the form of relational data and business support, so Fung Ke that the traditional database is facing this transformation, but also the advantages and opportunities of traditional database companies." In this regard, the Avatar database as well as Clusterware, Kstore and other products are constantly upgraded to achieve the traditional database and Yuncu mutual support, integration. Traditional databases still have advantages for midsize applications. In addition, some sensitive departments, such as the government departments, require the physical isolation of internal and external network, these users to migrate to the cloud, there are also practical difficulties in policy, in this regard, the Avatar database also launched a secure database version, to achieve a large number of user isolation, audit, encryption and other security needs

Yuncu Leading value

Cloud database implementation After deployment, what will bring to the enterprise? Addressing the issue, Fung Ke said: "More cloud software, including the introduction of operating systems and databases, has brought more diverse cloud services to companies, bringing more choices to companies ready to migrate to the cloud." This is a good thing, will promote the development of China's cloud computing platform, to bring users more quality services, so that the service market bigger and stronger, reduce operating costs, improve platform performance and service quality, ultimately conducive to the development of the entire industry. Cloud services in the promotion process, users are generally worried because the data are all migrated to the cloud, so in the face of cloud service providers, may lose the right to pricing, so more competition is users want to see. At the same time, the Shenzhou also hope to be able to cooperate actively with domestic companies, to bring more and better cloud library products. In the traditional database field, the domestic technology in the starting line has lagged behind, hope that in the Yuncu era, China can closely follow the international leading level, and even guide the development of global cloud database applications. ”

2011, SAP spent 5.8 billion dollars to acquire the database company Sybase, into the database field. is the addition of SAP the value of YUNCU, or to strengthen the competitive advantage in the market? Will the emergence of cloud library technology affect the whole industry and even the mainstream manufacturers? Fung Ke, SAP's acquisition of Sybase, is mainly due to the recent series of acquisitions and mergers and acquisitions by competitors. As the world's largest enterprise management software provider, without a strong basic data management platform, from the integrity of the product chain, will be in a very disadvantageous competitive position. And from the point of view of cloud computing, users more and more urgent need to provide a set of cloud computing manufacturers including hardware, operating system, software, YUNCU, including the cloud platform solution, so the complete industrial chain is becoming more and more important, only master the entire industrial chain, only the strength to control the cost of the entire cloud platform, And not to be subject to competition in one respect, so as to provide more market-competitive products in cloud services.

Fung Ke that the emergence of cloud databases for the entire industry and even mainstream manufacturers is not a bad thing. In fact, the traditional database server developed to today, the technology has been very mature, the market is also becoming saturated. The advent of cloud computing is not so much a competition as to give the industry tongren an opportunity, especially for domestic database manufacturers. If we can grasp this new market, will help us to catch up with the international industry giants, in the market to occupy a place. The emergence of Yuncu may make some have strong market sensitivity, the early introduction of new manufacturers to adapt to market products, such as the Avatar's Kstore products, aims at the telecom industry's characteristics, which can provide high compression and high performance data storage products and services for telecom users, and greatly reduce their deployment cost. Secondly, from the technical analysis, the database migration to the cloud, the basic technology accumulation of database is still very important, so the mainstream database manufacturers still have the advantage in technology, the competition pattern of the market may not be changed too much, and the variables in it are likely to come from the grasp of market and demand and the operation of business model. Finally, as in the case of SAP acquisitions, the need for private Yuncu in the marketplace will result in a growing focus on the ability of vendors to deliver a complete set of solutions. This will be a big challenge for other database manufacturers in China, and it will also compete with other excellent hardware and software vendors outside the database industry.

Therefore, Fung Ke believes that in the industry, database manufacturers and other software and hardware providers of cooperation, mergers and acquisitions cases will continue to emerge. Avatar is also with the winning of virtualization, the domestic Hongshan virtualization, Odin Technology virtualization, Citrix, Vwware virtualization and other excellent software and hardware enterprises to discuss cooperation.

A promising Cloud library

On the issue of YUNCU safety standards, there is no more standard system in the industry. Fung Ke introduced, users for the security of the cloud, the most concern is how users trust the YUNCU provider, or the cloud library provider's internal staff, do not use data to do illegal. For example, our personal privacy is leaked, or the purchase of online shopping is recorded and so on, for users, this violates the user's privacy. For the core data of the enterprise, it is absolutely not so simple. At present, the more mature cloud services business model, most of the cloud service provider is itself a content provider, enterprises can transfer the core business directly to the public cloud, the success of the case is limited. This will be an important obstacle to the future development of cloud computing.

Therefore, the establishment and implementation of a sound security system for the development and application of cloud Library technology is very important. Fung Ke suggested that we should start from both technical and non technical aspects, adopt comprehensive and comprehensive fortification methods. Ensure the user's data security through internal audit, encryption or other technical means. In this regard, the Avatar Database security version of the development of YUNCU to provide a number of advantages and experience, based on national defense, military, government and other key sectors of the needs of the database security control experience will also provide support for the promotion of Cloud Library technology.

At present, cloud database products include four kinds: the first category is similar to Azure, provide a set of relational database services of the cloud database products; The second category is similar to database.com, providing packaging, configuration and maintenance services to achieve their own cloud library services products; The third category is SimpleDB products, Provides simplified data storage services, which are often referred to as NoSQL databases by academia. The fourth class is Oracle's Exadata Database cloud Server, which provides the database cloud server directly to the user. Therefore, the development of cloud database industry has moved towards diversification, which is also the result of diversification of application requirements. Fung Ke said that at present we see the most successful application of NoSQL database or in the Internet industry, the latter's business logic is relatively simple, but the volume of data is very large, and growth is very fast, should say NoSQL database is a big deal.

But NoSQL still has many technical difficulties, it seems unrealistic to replace the relational database completely. Therefore, for small applications, it may be azure, database.com these two types of services will have more advantages, and for the application of large enterprises, Oracle Exadata Such a complete cloud server will be more appropriate.

It can be said that with the continuous enrichment of cloud database products, as well as the continuous upgrading of traditional databases and the application of cloud database, cloud database will play an inestimable role in the future. Therefore, Fung Ke at the end that the cloud database will be promising. In the long run, he believes that the various types of cloud databases will complement each other, and with the traditional relational database to absorb each other's advantages, and ultimately long-term coexistence, both the integration and diversification of the development.

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