30 Years of Monopoly Ended! Oracle's Great Retreat in China is a Battle to Break the Database Barrier.
Whoever controls core technology holds the power of speech, but power of speech is not equivalent to technological domination.
In 1989, Oracle entered the Chinese market and quickly established a market share of up to 90% in key areas such as finance, telecommunications, and energy. This American tech giant implemented "data colonialism" in the Chinese market, obtaining high profits through bundled sales and forced upgrades. Previously, Oracle imposed a 60 million yuan "breach penalty" on China Unicom for not using its designated team, exemplifying the abuse of technological hegemony. Enterprises were "strangled," and "data security" was a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.
However, technological blockades often give rise to technological breakthroughs. Chinese enterprises have embarked on the path of independent innovation, forcing Oracle to cut staff and eliminate business lines multiple times since 2022, finally exiting the Chinese market. At the same time, domestic databases have risen. According to IDC reports, Huawei Cloud database has a market share of 13.9%, ranking first in the local deployment model market for relational database software in China, surpassing Oracle for the first time.
Recently, the authoritative journal "Financial Electronics" under the People's Bank of China published a new survey on six state-owned banks: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, Construction Bank of China, China Communications Bank, and China Post Savings Bank. The data shows that only a small number of business systems in the six major state-owned banks use Oracle (Oracle), and five domestic databases have been selected as main products. Among them, the business system quantity of Huawei Cloud GaussDB database has the highest proportion. This also confirms the recognition of the security performance of domestic databases in the financial sector.
The successful breakthrough of Huawei Cloud GaussDB stems from its full-stack independent technical strength, building a complete technical chain from the underlying Kunpeng chip to the database engine. Its innovative three-layer pooling architecture realizes the complete decoupling of computing, memory, and storage resources. This modular design gives the database unprecedented elasticity and expansion capabilities. Compared with traditional solutions that require business transformation, GaussDB's architectural advantages lie in supporting smooth cloud migration of businesses, significantly shortening the transformation cycle that usually takes months. The GaussDB database has doubled performance, with a 3-node cluster processing 3.8 million transactions per minute (tpmC), and fault recovery time shortened to within 6 seconds. With the support of the super node technology based on the Lingqu architecture in the future, it will help enterprises improve better product performance.
Regarding the security issues more concerned by the industry, Huawei Cloud GaussDB adopts a data security protection scheme that collaborates between computing, storage, and data. It prevents spoofing, attacks, tampering, and ransomware, truly achieving "no blind spots" in protecting data security and completely solving the "backdoor"隐患.
"Finally, we don't have to look at sky-high bills anymore." Oracle's retreat is not only a market loss for this former database giant, but also marks a historic turning point in China's basic software from relying on imports to being self-controlled. It is a significant victory for domestic databases in the face of technological blockades. In this battle for voice in the database field, Chinese enterprises have proven with their strength that technological autonomy is the strongest weapon to break the blockade.
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