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Since the issuance of the “14th Five-Year Plan” Digital Economy Development Plan in 2022, China's digital development has been on a fast track. As the basic software for data storage and calculation, database is crucial for building a solid foundation for the digital economy. Server is an important carrier for carrying data. As the database performance can be improved without ceiling through capacity expansion, the cooperation and connection between database and server have become increasingly close. 

Recently, AsiaInfo (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “AsiaInfo”) and Inspur Business Machines Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Inspur Business Machines”) have completed the mutual product certification of AntDB 7.0 and Inspur K1 Power server, and have worked together to create joint solutions with higher resource utilization, more flexible deployment, and better performance, enabling the digital transformation of key industries such as communications, finance, transportation, energy, and the IoT. 

Figure 1: Certificate of product compatibility between AntDB 7.0 of AsiaInfo and Inspur K1 Power server 

Dedicated to the industry for fifteen years 

AntDB: Extensive, Persistent, Fast and Stable 

AsiaInfo is a leading provider of software products, solutions, and services, and a leading “full-stack provider of digital intelligence”. Established in 2008, AsiaInfo's AntDB provides online services to more than 1 billion users in 24 provinces across the country on the core systems of service provider. It has product features such as high performance, elastic expansion, and high reliability. It can handle millions of core communications transactions per second at peak values, ensuring the continuous and stable operation of the system for nearly a decade, and has been successfully commercialized in industries such as communications, finance, transportation, energy, and the IoT. 

The AntDB of AsiaInfo has four characteristics: “extensive, fast, persistent, and stable”: 

• Extensive: There are a large number of service users, with over 1 billion mobile phone users nationwide using the AntDB in the background. 

• Persistent: It has been applied for a long time and has been used in the billing system since 2008. AntDB has undergone 15 years of careful refinement. 

• Fast: It has fast execution performance and can handle millions of core communications transactions per second at peak times. All the call records in the communications business and every message sent and received online require the support of an AntDB in the background. 

• Stable: The product is stable and reliable, and AntDB has been running smoothly in the core system of communication service provider for decades, ensuring safety and efficiency 

Figure 2: Functional architecture of AntDB product of AsiaInfo 

AntDB is a scalable, multi-tenant, highly available, high-performance and domestic distributed DDB product, which is designed to provide a one-stop solution for OLTP (Online Transactional Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) scenarios, with features such as automatic high availability, online elastic expansion, kernel level read/write separation, and it supports the SQL2016 standard, provides petabyte level data processing capabilities with high concurrency, high throughput, and low latency, and facilitates the smooth migration of applications from Oracle to AntDB. 

The AntDB of AsiaInfo has the following advantages: 

• HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a general-purpose, enterprise level distributed RDBMS that integrates transaction processing and online analysis operations, while supporting daily pipelining operations and decision-making businesses for enterprise reports. 

•Extensive syntax compatibility: it adopts the advanced multi-modal compatible SQL engine, supports the SQL 2016 standard, and compatible with the SQL syntax of foreign mainstream databases. 

• One-click migration: AntDB provides a one-click data migration tool that can proactively determine migration risk points and make optimization adjustments, significantly reducing migration workload and migration risks. 

• Online elastic expansion: AntDB scales seamlessly and horizontally with data growth, supporting automatic data redistribution, and being transparent to applications. It only needs to add more machines to meet business growth needs, and the application layer does not need to care about storage capacity and throughput. 

• Kernel-level read/write separation: AntDB is implemented from the kernel level, routing read traffic to slave nodes and write traffic to master nodes, effectively addressing peak and extreme business loads, and can exponentially improve the system's data throughput performance. 

• Data security and reliability: AntDB can quickly detect cluster anomalies and quickly and automatically repair them, with RPO=0 and RTO seconds, continuously ensuring business continuity. 

Preferred core applications 

“Three High and One Strong” Inspur K1 Power Server 

Inspur business machines inherit Inspur's technical accumulation in high-end server system design, combines the advantages of power processor in performance, function, reliability, etc., and independently develops, produces, and sells Inspur K1 Power series server products with both vertical and horizontal expansion characteristics for the market of China and the “the Belt and Road” countries, so as to create a safe and reliable overall solutions customized for users, and provide professional and agile software and technical support services and guarantees. 

With its excellent “three high and one strong” features, Inspur K1 Power server provides an extremely stable, reliable, safe and efficient hardware infrastructure platform for enterprise core businesses. The hardware value are as follows: 

• Stable and reliable: As the preferred platform for core applications, Inspur K1 Power Server provides customers with stable and reliable hardware support. It has been widely used in industries such as finance, government, medical care, and enterprises. It has been running steadily for 8-10 years, with availability of over 99.999%, and has not been shut down or restarted for many years. Inspur K1 Power Server adopts the highest standards in the industry from design, development, production, testing, and other aspects, ensuring that the system can continuously and stably operate, and it can withstand sudden accidents caused by harsh physical environments such as vulcanization, high temperature, and voltage fluctuations; By means of redundancy, hot switching, and fault self-detection, the risk of unplanned downtime is greatly reduced, achieving high maintainability of the system. 

• Safe platform: It implements self built system microcode at the microcode layer, equipped with source level security detection, and develops firmware Secure Boot functionality to prevent malicious attacks on microcode; In addition to mainstream Linux operating systems, many local Linux vendors, such as RedFlag and NeoKylin, have completed compatibility and adaptability mutual certification with Inspur K1 Power server; The configurable system security hardening SSR suite, which implements mandatory access control for files, directories, processes, registries, and services, effectively restricts and disperses the privileges of the original system administrator, and fundamentally immunizes against various existing attacks against the operating system, such as viruses, worms, and hackers. 

• Powerful performance: Inspur K1 Power server has a larger number of threads per processor core, which can more effectively address the threading requirements of multi-service processes on processors under the micro-service architecture. The number of services that can be hosted on a single machine greatly exceeds that of the X86 architecture. 

• Cloud-native: Inspur K1 Power server has built-in virtualization capabilities and supports multiple deployment modes, including logical partitioning, differential partitioning, and bare metal, achieving the highest efficiency in resource utilization to meet various application load requirements. It provides multiple disaster tolerance technical means such as dynamic partition migration, remote partition restart, VMR DR, etc., ensuring the continuous and stable operation of core businesses 

Based on Inspur K1 Power 

AsiaInfo AntDB joint solution 

Under the current tide of digitalization and intelligence, Inspur K1 Power closely combines database, a key part of basic software, fully exploits its “three high and one strong” advantages to create a highly competitive comprehensive solution in the field of database, and further improves industrial strength and technological ecosystem of Inspur K1 Power, providing strong support for the construction of key information infrastructure in the digital era. 

In this joint solution, the AntDB 7.0 of AsiaInfo has successfully passed the compilation on the Linux system of Inspur K1 Power Server. The installation, deployment, startup, shutdown, and other management tests have shown normal results, and the SQL operation function tests have returned normal results. The AntDB 7.0 of AsiaInfo is perfectly compatible with the Linux system of Inspur K1 Power Server. 

Figure 3: Joint Solution 

The AntDB of AsiaInfo is a rare product in the industry that supports both centralized and distributed deployment. Regardless of whether centralized deployment or distributed/MPP deployment is adopted, the ultra-high frequency, large cache, and multi-threading features of Inspur K1 Power server can give full play to the performance advantages of Inspur K1 Power server, which can deploy over 10,000 containers on a single machine. In addition, Inspur K1 Power server can also deeply optimize domestic and open source databases, big data, and micro-service applications based on application optimization, providing twice the performance advantage compared to X86 server. In addition, Inspur K1 Power server supports cloud-native platforms and is more flexible in resource scheduling, making it a preferred platform for deploying enterprise DDB. 

About AsiaInfo 

Started in 1993 and successfully listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 19, 2018, AsiaInfo Holdings Co., Ltd. (AsiaInfo, stock code: 01675.HK) is a leading provider of software products, solutions and services, and a leading provider of digital intelligence full-stack capabilities. Based on its core capabilities in digital intelligence such as consulting and planning, product development, implementation and delivery, system integration, intelligent decision-making, data operations, and customer service, AsiaInfo creates a closed loop of customer service, providing end-to-end full-link digital intelligence transformation services for customers in industries such as communications, government affairs, energy, transportation, radio and television, and postal services. AsiaInfo Anhui Technologies is a carrier for AsiaInfo to layout national information technology application innovation. It focuses on the development and service related businesses of database and middleware products in the basic software field, forming a mature and technologically leading database product AntDB. 

Figure 4: Honors Received by AntDB of AsiaInfo Recently 

In terms of software capabilities, the AntDB of AsiaInfo has been equipped with advanced capabilities such as native distribution, dual memory and disk engines, and online smooth expansion and contraction. It has been widely used in the communication industry, and has successfully landed in commerce in multiple industries such as transportation, finance, energy, and postal services. 

About Inspur Business Machines 

Inspur Power Commercial Systems Co., Ltd. is a local server manufacturer in China that is jointly funded and established by Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co., Ltd. (“Inspur”) and International Business Machines (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (“IBM”), and it is a local Chinese server manufacturer controlled by Inspur. Inspur has always led the innovation and development of information technology in China. The independently developed K1 key application host has won the “First Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award”. 

Inspur business machines inherit Inspur's technical accumulation in high-end server system design, combines the advantages of Power processor in performance, function, reliability, etc., and independently develops, produces, and sells Inspur K1 Power series server products with both vertical and horizontal expansion characteristics for the market of China and the “the Belt and Road” countries, so as to create a safe and reliable overall solutions customized for users, and provide professional and agile software and technical support services and guarantees.