How Chinese Domestic Databases Evolved in 2017: Funding, Products, and Market Moves

Overview of Chinese Domestic Database Vendors (2017)

In 2017 Chinese database vendors continued to develop products aimed at meeting national security requirements while competing with global vendors such as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. The following sections summarise the technical and financial status of the most active companies.

Nanda General (南大通用)

Financing: 191 million CNY raised in early 2017, with 76 million CNY earmarked for a unified data‑platform R&D project and 65 million CNY for a large‑scale cluster‑database project.

Key products:

GBase UP – enterprise‑grade big‑data platform.

InfiniData‑T – transaction‑processing database appliance.

GBase 8e – embedded database for IoT scenarios. Technical specifications:

Form factor: card‑size board.

CPU support: ARM and x86.

Operating systems: multiple Chinese embedded OSes.

Resource usage: low, high stability.

Storage capacity: 256 GB.

Data volume: billions of rows.

Query latency: microsecond‑level.

Throughput: ~3 000 transactions per minute.

HanGao Software (瀚高软件)

Capital raise: 2.5 million new shares on the NEEQ in January 2017, generating 18.75 million CNY. Reported 2016 revenue of 58.45 million CNY and net profit of 9.19 million CNY (YoY growth 139 % and 100 %).

Technical focus:

Database built on PostgreSQL source code; maintains close collaboration with the PostgreSQL community.

Contributed bug fix Bug 14615 to PostgreSQL 9.6.2, accepted by the global community.

Released open‑source tool XlogMiner for PostgreSQL transaction log analysis.

Participated in PGConf US 2017, presented at PGCon 2017, and helped establish the PostgreSQL China Working Group.

Specialises in object‑relational databases; claims >1 000 customers and ~50 % sales increase in 2017.

Kingbase (人大金仓)

Business composition: database products account for 70‑80 % of total revenue.

Product roadmap: planned release of a new baseline version, KingbaseES V8 , with substantial technical enhancements (details not disclosed).

Market activity: active participation in major big‑data and database conferences throughout 2017.

Inspur K‑DB (浪潮 K‑DB)

Security certification: passed China’s “Information System Security Level Protection” (三级) certification issued by the Ministry of Public Security.

Strategic initiatives (K + Plan 2017):

Target sectors – transportation, finance, social security.

Strengthen ecosystem integration across mainframes, storage, and database software.

Deliver end‑to‑end solutions combining hardware and database services.

Partnership: signed a strategic cooperation agreement with XingRuiGe Software to co‑develop high‑performance data platforms.

Visibility: listed on the DB‑Engines ranking, showing rapid fluctuations in market perception.

XingRuiGe (星瑞格)

Background: licensed IBM Informix source code in 2015 and launched the SinoDB product line six months later.

Notable deployments:

Replaced Oracle in Fujian emergency command system.

Replaced Oracle in Xinjiang Karamay smart‑city project.

Cloud offerings (June 27 2017): released SinoDB Personal Development Edition and SinoDB Enterprise Edition as pre‑configured images on Huawei Enterprise Cloud, with free trial options for users with Huawei cloud hosts.

Future focus: develop flagship solutions for education, finance, and smart‑city sectors to expand domestic database adoption.

Industry Event Highlight

The 9th China System Architect Conference (SACC 2017) was held 19‑21 October 2017 in Beijing, concentrating on “Cloud‑Intelligent Future” and gathering experts from cloud computing, AI, big data, mobile Internet, and industry applications.