On December 14, 2022, ifenxi, the leading digitalization institute for market research and consultation, released ifenxi · 2022 Panorama Report on Database Vendor. AsiaInfo was selected as a representative vendor in the transactional relational database field with AntDB.

　　Figure 1 AntDB selected in the "ifenxi· 2022 Panorama Report on Database Vendor”

　　The report points out that in the context of domestic digital transformation and the continuous promotion of information innovation construction, many vendors have entered the domestic database market, providing enterprises with databases for a variety of application scenarios and related ecological tools or services. The domestic database market has thus ushered in many new changes, new product types, new technologies, new services, and a new market landscape, and these changes also make enterprises consider more complex factors when choosing a database.

　　Considering the market scale of market segments, enterprise concern and other factors, ifenxi selected five market segments in this study: transactional relational database, analytical database, hyper-converged database, graph database, and cloud management platform of database, and conducted key research to provide reference for database planning and vendor selection for enterprises  through the demand of each specific market and the capabilities of representative vendors.

　　Ifenxi evaluates vendors in specific markets based on three dimensions: vendor capability, number of enterprise customers served, and revenue scale, and judges the competitiveness of vendors in database application and implementation by combining ifenxi’s evaluation model, and the vendors with the highest competitiveness are finally selected for the database vendor panorama report. AsiaInfo was selected as a representative vendor in the transactional relational database with AntDB on the basis of its 15-year experience in communications.

　　A Quick Look at AntDB

　　AntDB started in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online services for more than 1 billion users in 24 provinces across the country. With product features such as high performance, elastic expansion and high reliability, AntDB can process one million core communications transactions per second at peak, ensuring the continuous and stable operation of the system for over ten years, and is successfully implemented for commercial purpose in communication, finance, transportation, energy, Internet of Things and other industries.

　　AntDB, as one of the earliest domestic database product, comes from high-density and high-complexity demand scenarios, and is a database product born out of demand (communication data surged at the beginning of the 21st century, and the throughput and response rate of foreign databases could not meet the data storage and management needs of operators, so the first generation of AntDB was born as a memory database), and has been polished in the core system of communication carriers. It is fair to say that AntDB has witnessed and participated in the development and evolution of communication technology from 2G to 5G, and has extraordinary sensitivity to the scenarios that will be brought by technological progress, and is able to accurately grasp the future scenario needs and iterates and upgrades its product and  technology on this basis, leading the technical development of the industry. AntDB is a future-oriented database in deed.

　　On December 28, 2022, in the special database session of the "Digital Intelligence-Driven, Full Stack Empowerment" series product launch of AsiaInfo, AntDB released its hyper-converged all-in-one streaming engine, which integrates multiple engines and capabilities in the overall architecture, and on this basis, it integrates streaming computing and database from the kernel level to innovate. It meets the needs of real-time processing scenarios of business real-time analysis and real-time reporting, as well as the needs of asynchronous transaction scenarios of Internet+ and other types, leading the frontier technology of database again.

　　AntDB’s efforts in the context of information innovation

　　From the perspective of information innovation, as database product with a fully self-researched kernel, born in the production environment, AntDB also takes up the responsibility of the application and innovation of information technology, and goes out of the communication carrier industry to help customers in finance, transportation, energy and other industries to complete the upgrade of their core business systems, and receives unanimous praise from customers.

　　So, what exactly has AntDB done in this matter of information innovation?

　　First of all, AntDB's storage and execution engines are its own technology, with every line of code originating from its own team of engineers.

　　Second, the multimodal SQL-compatible engine, which is fully integrated into the PostgreSQL and MySQL ecosystem, and highly compatible with Oracle features. With the multi-syntax SQL parsing engine design that can be customized and extended by customer, a set of database can meet the nationalization replacement requirements of a variety of foreign databases. The ecology system of perfect DBA and de-O support tools can deduce customers’ costs of learning and operation and maintenance.

　　Third, AntDB has been actively adapting to information innovation ecosystem, supporting many domestic chips and operating systems and adapting to domestic third-party tools.

　　In addition, as a member of the Information Innovation Working Committee, AsiaInfo actively promotes information innovation testing, and the code autonomy rate of AntDB exceeds 90%.

　　In this matter of information innovation, the most important aspects for domestic database vendors are summarized as having and continuously developing core technologies that do not depend on others, polishing products in the actual production environment, continuously investing resources and actively integrating into the domestic ecology, and this is what we have been insisting on doing.

　　As AntDB brings its 15 years of technology development and service experience in the communication industry to more and more industries, AntDB is gradually attracting the attention of research institutions, media and industry players, and we believe that AntDB will live up to the expectations and offers more surprises in technology and service innovation.