Recently, AntDB won the "2022 Most Promising Database of the Year" at the Data Technology Carnival Summit. Mr. Zhang Hua, Vice President of AsiaInfo Anhui, was invited to the summit and delivered a speech on "Application and Innovation of AntDB Core System in Telecommunication Industry", sharing the practical experience of AntDB in large-scale data management projects and describing the latest R&D and technical capabilities of AntDB in the direction of "hyper-convergence" and "streaming real-time data warehouse".

Figure 1: on-site presentation

As a leading “intelligent full-stack capability provider" in China, AsiaInfo is always committed to providing customers with efficient, reliable and secure software products, solutions and services. The award-winning AntDB is a high-performance and highly reliable distributed relational database with four main features:

Amount - A huge number of subscribers. More than 1 billion mobile phone owners using AntDB database in the background.

History - A history of solid implementation. AntDB has gone through 15 years of trials and tribulations since its implementation in billing system in 2008.

Speed - Fast execution performance. All the call records and every message first sent on the Internet in the telecom business need the support of AntDB in the background, and AntDB can handle millions of core communication transactions per second at its peak.

Stability - Stable and reliable products. AntDB has been running smoothly, safely in the core system of telecom operators for more than ten years.

It is reported that the 12th Data Technology Carnival (DTC 2023), co-organized by China DBA Alliance and Modb Community, is the leading data technology industry event in China, aiming to promote the development of data technology innovation and application, and the rapid development of digital economy. The award is the result of the long-term commitment of AntDB database team to data technology research and product development, as well as the recognition of AsiaInfo's efforts to provide quality data intelligence products and services to customers.

Figure 2: AntDB received the award "2022 Most Promising Database of the Year” from Modb

Integration and innovation

Enterprise-level data management solution

Zhang Hua, vice president of AsiaInfo Anhui, believed that stability and reliability are the basis of a database, and that talking about technological innovation without it is water without a source and wood without a root. He believed that in the future, databases need to help customers obtain data and information better and more efficiently, followed by a better integration of enterprise-level and national-level information and the elimination of barriers between different technical architectures. Finally, he also summarized the two directions of future technological development, up is the integration between technologies and down is the pursuit of higher efficiency.

AntDB is committed to providing customers with one-stop data management solutions to solve the following 5 major data management problems encountered by large enterprises in the process of digital transformation.

• Data fragmentation: support different data sources, realize the reduction management of data, form a complete and unified management platform for enterprise. AntDB supports more than 100 business types. In the scenario of HTAP mixed load, database selection has to consider the unity of the system, and the underlying database has difficulty in data reduction, because it has to be both distributed and be able to dynamically mobilize computing power to achieve dynamic distribution of data.

• Minimum changes in the application layer: to be able to quickly adapt to the new architecture, the enterprise's existing large amount of businesses and data requires the database products to have maximum compatibility and availability to support multi-modal SQL engine at the bottom and standard SQL, and to be able to dynamically adjust the load size and scale of TP and AP, with higher flexibility and adaptability to reduce the changes on the application side.

• High concurrent business requirements: AntDB is designed based on the architecture of distributed memory computing to meet the applications of normal analysis, transaction and statistical report of 5G business. No matter the high-rate response of foreground application, or the high-pressure billing task at the beginning and end of the month, it can meet these requirements perfectly.

• Light installation and deployment: the mixed use of multiple products inevitably brings the problems of complicated architecture and increased workload for DBAs, while AntDB is one of the few products in the industry that supports both centralized and distributed deployment, and has a light deployment mode that allows for "centralized + distributed" installation and deployment for different business systems, when supporting a read-write splitting architecture.

• High availability: high availability is a cliché, which is the guarantee of data security and business continuity for enterprise. AntDB's multi-copy backup mechanism not only supports the classic high availability architecture, but also enables disaster recovery deployment in two locations and three centers, meeting the demands of high availability and disaster recovery in one go, which is very cost-effective.

Figure 3: the installation and deployment of AntDB