Alibaba Cloud has seen its revenue for database products rise 50% year-over-year due to a global increase in cloud computing as companies boost recovery efforts amidst the pandemic.
The company has also been named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. This follows being named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems report.
"Since entering the leader's quadrant in 2020, Alibaba Cloud has been continuously innovating our database products to address customers' growing needs associated with data analytics and security," says Alibaba Cloud Intelligence president of Database Business, Dr Li Feifei.
"In addition, we are committed to open-sourcing more database products such as cloud-native database PolarDB and its distributed version PolarDB-X, to give global developers the access of our technologies to build up an inclusive database ecosystem."
Driving 150,000 customers' global success
The Alibaba Cloud database product family currently serves 150,000 customers worldwide, covering key verticals including aviation, insurance, logistics, retail, fintech, manufacturing, gaming, education and more.
Some examples include:
New launches to boost security and analytics capabilities
Alibaba Cloud says customers are increasingly adopting a hybrid work approach to reduce cost, increase performance efficiency and help them meet the security requirements. The company says it has invented a fully encrypted database system that allows users to encrypt their data before uploading them to the cloud for processing, giving businesses the extra layer of compliance and privacy assurance with the benefits of cloud-native database systems.
To assist enterprises in dealing with hybrid processing requirements, Alibaba Cloud also upgraded its cloud-native data warehouse AnalyticDB to handle online interactive analytics and offline batch processing simultaneously in one system, providing businesses with AI when dealing with complex workloads.
Alibaba Cloud has also upgraded its Ganos, a cloud-native Spatio-temporal database engine that could analyse and translate 3D and 4D spatial data to build digital twins mirroring the physical world. The engine has been upgraded to address the growing analytic requirement of multidimensional data, especially in construction, transportation, urban planning, natural landscape surveying and mapping.