The digital economy is becoming the driving engine of global economic development, and the localization process of databases, as the cornerstone of digitalization and informatization, is crucial.
Adhering to the concept of independent innovation, Refine Technology has developed the Snowball database. After years of polishing and upgrading, Snowball Database stands out from many domestic database products by virtue of its leading advantages in technical characteristics, industry applications and ecological construction.
In 2018, Snowball was officially unveiled at the Beijing Security Expo. In the same year, catalyzed by the "Huawei and ZTE incidents", the wave of information innovation swept in. Snowball grasps the development opportunity, and while helping government and enterprise users to achieve localized substitution, it continues to carry out its own iterative upgrading and application scenario innovation, and rapidly grows into a mature and stable domestic database product.
In terms of technical features, Snowball Database adopts a distributed multi-master cluster architecture, which realizes ultra-fast online analysis and ultra-fast interactive query processing through columnar storage, MPP cluster architecture, vectorized execution, and LLVM-based runtime code generation. Through distributed writing based on multi-master architecture, high-performance data writing characteristics are realized. Through graphical management tools, the user threshold is lowered. At the same time, thanks to multi-copy backup, cross-cluster data replication, and incremental data backup, Snowball Database can achieve extreme high availability and disaster recovery support.
In industry applications, Snowball has served hundreds of leading users in various fields such as government affairs, public security, communications, and rail transit, providing underlying data support for its core systems. At the same time, Ruifan Technology has established in-depth cooperation with many leading manufacturers of information and innovation to jointly build a domestic database ecosystem.
The speed of information innovation has ushered in the development opportunity of domestic databases
At the beginning of its establishment, Ruifan Technology began to develop an independent and controllable domestic database. After years of polishing, the Snowball database was officially launched in 2018. In the second year, Snowball passed the quality inspection of security and police electronic products of the Ministry of Public Security, laying a solid technical foundation for its practice in the public security industry. In 2021, Snowball passed the big data product capability evaluation of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and its compatibility, security, high availability, scalability and other capabilities were professionally certified.
The rise of the wave of information innovation has brought a key opportunity for the development of domestic databases. The so-called information innovation is generally regarded as to realize domestic substitution, independent controllability, security and credibility in the computer field and information technology field, as well as open innovation on this basis. With extremely fast query, analysis, and write performance, Snowball Database has taken advantage of this wave and won high recognition in the market.
In the 10 billion data bayonet search car and 100 billion VOLTE CDR association query tests with friends, Xueqiu Database Snowball is ahead of other test products by relying on millisecond-level processing capabilities, especially in scenarios with more than 50 concurrency, Xueqiu's extremely fast interactive query has a significant advantage, which further verifies its powerful capabilities in large-scale and high-concurrency scenarios.
Snowball database Snowball real-world scenario test
Hardcore technology creates Snowball's unique competitiveness
So far, the development of information and innovation has changed from simple substitution to substitution and innovation, and the driving force of the information and innovation industry is also changing from policy guidance to market demand. To meet market demand, the core technical ability of the product is the key.
Snowball integrates six core technical capabilities: distributed cluster architecture, ultra-fast interactive query processing, high-performance data writing, high ease of use, extremely high availability disaster recovery, and high scalability, and builds differentiated competitive advantages in terms of product maturity, stability, and security.
1. Distributed cluster architecture: Snowball Database adopts a distributed cluster architecture, which can break through the bottlenecks of traditional databases that are difficult to maintain performance, lack of data analysis capabilities, and high cost of expanding capacity in the face of rapid growth of data volume, and reduce maintenance costs while meeting the performance requirements of massive data storage.
2. Extremely fast interactive query processing: The distributed parallel mechanism of Snowball database has millisecond-level processing capacity of tens of billions of data, and users can perform extremely fast analysis of full data online, and the query performance is more than 10 times better than that of traditional databases.
3. High-performance data writing: The distributed cluster architecture of Snowball Database adopts a share-nothing multi-master architecture and supports distributed concurrent writes to maximize the cluster write capacity. Write performance can increase linearly as the cluster scales out. At the same time, the hash random algorithm automatically balances the data distribution of each node to write millions of rows of data per second.
4. High ease of use: Snowball provides graphical management tools, which can realize the full life cycle operation and management of databases, such as database object management, visual SQL query tools, system diagnosis and analysis, user rights management, cluster monitoring, and replica monitoring.
Schematic diagram of the Snowball monitoring interface
5. Extreme high availability disaster recovery: Snowball supports multi-replica backup, provides cross-center fault-tolerant backup capabilities, can maintain the same data on different nodes, and automatically switches to the backup copy to provide services when the current node fails, achieving financial-grade disaster recovery capabilities.
6. High scalability: Snowball supports the linear expansion of thousands of nodes, and can flexibly add nodes according to actual usage needs to meet the growing data needs of enterprises.
Empowering the industry, Xueqiu database has been recognized by the market
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After years of product polishing and enterprise-level application practice, Snowball Database continues to stably serve key business systems in multiple industries, providing safe and efficient technical support for hundreds of users such as Guangzhou Metro, Beijing Mobile, and Guangdong Public Security. In the communications industry, Xueqiu Database has covered more than half of the operators' network data centers in more than half of the provinces.
In recent years, Ruifan Technology has been selected as a representative vendor in iiMedia Consulting's "2022 China Information Innovation Database Enterprise Ranking" and "Gartner China Database Market Guide" with Snowball Database, and has been selected into the "Global Database Industry Atlas" of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology for two consecutive years.
In addition to the products with their own information and innovation genes, Ruifan Technology is also actively building the information innovation ecology, not only completing the compatibility and mutual certification of Snowball database and Kylin Software, UnionTech Software and other manufacturers, but also in-depth cooperation with well-known enterprises such as Jiadu Technology and Dongfang Tong to jointly accelerate the construction of a localized ecosystem.
It is the bounden responsibility of domestic databases to build an independent and controllable database management system and fundamentally ensure data security, and it is also the goal and direction of the growth of Snowball Database. In the future, Refine Technology will continue to adhere to the innovation-driven concept, further iteratively deepen the professional, ecological and reliable advantages of Snowball Database, and help the development of the domestic database industry and digital economy.