Under the guidance of fintech development and national policies, banks have accelerated the era of digital transformation, and are experiencing a digital transformation of smart banking with the goal of technology-led, data-empowered, and digital operation. As a key infrastructure for data-driven business innovation and smart banking construction, databases play a pivotal role in the digital transformation of banks.
1. An efficient and secure database platform is an important cornerstone to ensure the smooth progress of digital transformation of banks.
At present, the database applications of state-owned banks and joint-stock banks generally have the characteristics of large volume, wide coverage, tight pace and rapid change, which put forward strict requirements for the selection of new databases.
First of all, the bank's database is dominated by traditional commercial databases, covering hundreds of systems across the bank. Second, the disaster recovery requirements of different systems are high and low, and the deployment of head offices and branches is different, and the requirements for reliability and security protection are also different. Banks not only need to accelerate the transformation of the technology stack and reduce the workload of transformation, but also need to improve resource utilization and reduce resource consumption during the transformation process, while matching the management and operation and maintenance models of the banking industry. In addition, whether it can achieve rapid iteration to meet the emerging new requirements is also a major problem faced by banks in database selection.
In the process of promoting digital transformation, the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) selected the HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB database to migrate and transform its business system, and continued to promote the verification and application of a number of database core technologies, providing a useful reference for the digital transformation of China's financial industry.
To meet the needs of digital transformation and business development, Agricultural Bank of China selected the HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB database for verification and construction. GAUSSDB's strong monolithic capabilities, high syntax compatibility, perfect heterogeneous database migration guidance and tool chain, rich database service deployment forms, and database ecology covering industry, academia and research are important factors to attract Agricultural Bank of China.
In the R&D phase
Agricultural Bank of China utilizationGaussDB has the advantages of large size and strong performance of a single node, directly using the centralized architecture to relocate the traditional commercial database, avoiding the introduction of additional distributed transformation workload. At the same time, based on the high syntax compatibility of the GaussDB kernel, the database migration toolchain covering syntax scanning, syntax evaluation, database object migration, data migration, traffic playback and other processes is improved, further reducing the R&D workload in the process of large-scale data migration.
During the deployment phase
As a cloud-based deployed databaseGaussDB supports one-click provisioning as a cloud service and supports a variety of deployment forms, including bare metal storage-compute separation deployment, bare metal (local disk) deployment, virtualized storage-compute separation deployment, and lightweight deployment, realizes the hierarchical classification and standardization of deployment forms, and meets the disaster recovery level requirements of Agricultural Bank of China's business classification and classification.
In the running phase
To this end, Agricultural Bank of China has completed the construction of seven standardized documents introduced into the database, and has cooperated with HUAWEI CLOUD to focus on key tools and capabilities for safe and stable operation, including the database intelligent management platform, database backup tools, security audit functions, version management rules, alarms, and monitoring indicator docking, etc., to provide sufficient guarantee for the safe and reliable operation of the database.
Super Internet Banking is a key system for Agricultural Bank of China to connect with the national financial clearing infrastructure, which has extremely high requirements for the performance and stability of the database. In addition, the system supports the stable operation of a large number of important business applications in the industry, with an average daily transaction volume of 10 million.
The Agricultural Bank of China's super online banking project adopts a three-center deployment in two cities and is based on Dorado's GaussDB storage-computing separation architecture, which ensures that the RPO = 0 and the RTO is < 2 minutes in the same city, providing high-performance IO while reducing the impact of IO jitter and O&M on performance.
After actual project verification, it is found that HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB has a high degree of compatibility with migration, effectively avoiding the difficulties of database sharding or distributed construction. The new system has been relocated and the availability of the new system has been further improved compared to the original system.
In the future, HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB will carry out long-term cooperation with the Agricultural Bank of China in the database field. Relying on the abundant database requirements of the Agricultural Bank of China, HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB is further promoting the verification and application of database technology with the Agricultural Bank of China. Such as:
By using EVS to encapsulate different types of storage supply forms, the single point of failure of storage devices is eliminated, and the utilization rate and operation and maintenance management capabilities are improved.
Through HTAP technology, transaction and analytical processing are integrated into one system, reducing unnecessary data flow and improving the efficiency and response speed of data processing.
Snapshot-based backup ensures the stability of critical databases, protects databases from data corruption, loss, or malicious tampering, and improves the ability to quickly recover from abnormal situations.
The SQL Audit feature is introduced to effectively deal with problems such as slow SQL statements and avoid affecting database performance.
With its core advantages of high availability, high security, high performance, high elasticity, high intelligence, easy deployment, and easy migration, HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB has become the preferred database in the financial industry.Based on the successful case of the Agricultural Bank of China, the HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB database solution will become an important driving force for the financial industry, helping financial institutions ride the wave of digitalization. HUAWEI CLOUD GaussDB will continue to explore database application scenarios with financial institution customers, and accelerate the pace of financial digital transformation through continuous innovation and excellent services.