Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Nov 10, 2018 · Databases

A Decade of Alibaba Database Evolution for Double 11: From Commercial to Open‑Source to Self‑Developed

Over ten years Alibaba's database team transformed from commercial Oracle‑based systems to open‑source AliSQL and finally to the self‑developed X‑DB, introducing distributed middleware, cloud resources, full‑link testing, intelligent optimization and storage‑compute separation to support the massive Double 11 traffic peaks.