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Product Benefits

GaussDB(for MySQL) is an enterprise-class cloud database that uses a decoupled compute and storage architecture.

Requirements and Pain Points

Table 1 Requirements and pain points

Requirements and Pain Points

Description

MySQL compatibility

No need to reconstruct original MySQL applications

Mass storage

Large data storage capacity for Internet services

Distributed scalability

Automatic sharding or non-sharding with no impact on services

Strong-consistency transactions

Strong consistency of distributed transactions

High availability

Multi-AZ high availability and multi-region disaster recovery

High concurrency

High performance in high concurrency scenarios

Non-middleware architecture

No need to work with distributed database middleware for sharding

Core Advantages

Table 2 Core advantages

Advantage

Description

Superior performance

Million-level QPS

High scalability

1 write and 15 read-only nodes; 128 TB storage space

High reliability

Cross-AZ deployment and three data copies

High compatibility

Compatible with MySQL

Ultra-low cost

1/10 of the commercial database cost

Customer Benefits

  • Mass storage with 128 TB capacity and no sharding required
  • Easy-to-use, fully compatible with MySQL, and no application reconstruction required.
  • Elastic scalability with 15 read replicas and read/write splitting
  • Multi-AZ deployment, remote disaster recovery, and high reliability