PolarDB has topped the global database performance and cost-efficiency rankings.
(Source: TPC-C all results on tpc.org)
According to the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), Alibaba Cloud's PolarDB, a cloud-native database, has achieved a performance 2.5 times higher than the previous record holder in the TPC-C benchmark. With 2.055 billion transactions per minute (tpmC) and a cost efficiency of 0.8 CNY per tpmC, PolarDB has set a new world record, establishing itself as a leader in the relational database field. Through its innovative cloud-native architecture, PolarDB not only surpasses the scalability limits of single clusters but also withstands the largest concurrent transaction peaks globally.
TPC-C, often referred to as the "Olympics" of database benchmarks, tests the capabilities of online transaction processing (OLTP) systems. It evaluates two main criteria: Performance (tpmC) and Cost Efficiency (price/tpmC). Performance measures the speed of database operations, while Cost Efficiency assesses the cost-effectiveness of these operations. The TPC-C benchmark is a rigorous test, functioning as an "Extreme Challenge" for databases by pushing them through fault tolerance trials and stress tests over an 8-hour period, ensuring data accuracy and performance consistency even under simulated hardware failures.
Key Tests in the TPC-C Benchmark:
● Full Stress Test: The database must operate stably under extreme pressure for 8 hours, maintaining a tpmC fluctuation rate within 2%. It must ensure 100% data accuracy throughout this period, with zero errors.
● Fault Tolerance Test: Simulates diverse hardware and software failures to ensure data retention and transaction consistency, with minimal performance impact and rapid high-availability switching.
● ACI (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation) Test: Validates database consistency and isolation levels, with data scans exceeding 48 trillion rows in a single table.
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In recent rankings, Alibaba Cloud PolarDB claimed the top position with a performance of 2.055 billion tpmC, reducing costs by nearly 40% compared to the previous leader. The evolution of database systems - from centralized to distributed and now cloud-native architectures - continues with PolarDB's innovative software and hardware integration reaching new heights in performance and cost-efficiency. This marks the rise of cloud-native databases as the new industry standard, showcasing PolarDB's prowess in foundational software technology.
PolarDB's remarkable performance is exemplified by simulating 1.6 billion concurrent users, processing 59 times the transaction volume of Tmall's Double 11 peak scenario in 2020. During the 8-hour test period, PolarDB completed 2.2 trillion data operations, demonstrating only 0.16% tpmC volatility and achieving flawless ACI testing.
Somehow, PolarDB's success offers a cost-performance optimized solution for high-concurrency industries like finance, e-commerce, and logistics. It will reduce enterprise operational complexity and TCO, charting a path for global cloud database evolution.
The outstanding results of Alibaba Cloud PolarDB are attributed to continuous advancements in cloud-native database technology and architecture, overcoming single-cluster scalability challenges. By deeply integrating with technologies like Intel® Xeon® processors and optimizing database kernels, PolarDB excels in performance and cost-effectiveness:
1. Kernel Performance: Enhanced by 1.8 times over previous records through over 90 optimizations, including improvements in database kernel, index structures, IO paths, and log replication.
2. Scalability: The PolarDB Limitless architecture, the world’s first RDMA-based database cluster with thousands of nodes, supports massive scale-out and high-performance cross-node transaction consistency.
3. Hardware-Software Synergy: Utilizing Intel® Xeon® processors for high availability and low cost, with advancements like HW-PGO technology enhancing overall database efficiency, reducing I/O latency to 25 microseconds with high-performance RDMA, persistent memory AliSCM, and SmartSSD.
PolarDB's innovative three-tier decoupling architecture allows independent configuration of CPU, memory, and storage resources, achieving six times the performance of traditional databases at half the cost. With continuous innovations in Serverless and multi-master architecture, PolarDB has earned accolades such as the IEEE ICDE 2024 Best Paper Award and recognition at ACM SIGMOD 2024.
In the age of data-driven innovation, PolarDB’s TPC-C victory is not an endpoint - it‘s your launchpad. The choice you make today will define your technological leadership for the next decade.
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