Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been named a Pioneer in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) for the fifth year in a row.
Evaluation criteria
Gartner evaluates cloud DBMS vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, with criteria across 15 critical areas, including product or service, customer experience, market understanding, offering (product) strategy, and innovation, to determine their placement in the Magic Quadrant.
As per Gartner, “Pioneers may represent diverse cloud ecosystems, of which their cloud DBMS is a part, or have good interoperation with such systems. These vendors demonstrate consistently high customer satisfaction and strong customer support.”
Data management
“We are honoured to be named a pioneer in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for cloud DBMS report for the fifth year in a row,” said Dr. Feifei Li, President of the Database Products Business at Alibaba Cloud.
“In the era when effective data management becomes a crucial infrastructure for business operation in a range of industries as well as for generative AI development, we remain committed to delivering cutting-edge and high-performance solutions that empower businesses to harness the full potential of their data.”
Cloud-native innovation
Alibaba Cloud introduced DMS: OneMeta+OneOps, a platform that enables unified management of data sources
Alibaba Cloud offers a broad range of self-developed, cloud-native database products, including relational database PolarDB, data warehouse AnalyticDB, multimodal database Lindorm, and the Data Management Service (DMS), and constantly upgrades its product capabilities.
At its flagship event Apsara Conference in 2024, to help organisations efficiently manage their data and unleash value, Alibaba Cloud introduced DMS: OneMeta+OneOps, a platform that enables unified management of data sources in databases, data warehouses, and data lakes across multiple cloud environments. The platform will boost data utilisation rates by 10 times.
Diverse and open ecosystem
Alibaba Cloud is committed to establishing a diverse and open ecosystem with database vendors. Through collaboration with global partners such as MongoDB, ClickHouse, and SelectDB, Alibaba Cloud provides a variety of options for third-party database products, open-source products, and integrated solutions to support customers’ changing demands.
Alibaba Cloud’s cloud-native database innovations as well as its partner ecosystem have been widely adopted by companies across diverse industries from finance, retail, and internet, to generative AI builders.
MiniMax API Platform
Embedded with built-in AI inference capability, Lindorm provides large-scale data storage and high-performance data
MiniMax, an AI technology company in China, has leveraged Alibaba Cloud's multimodal database Lindorm as its underlying data service to build the MiniMax API Platform and GenAI application Hailuo AI.
Embedded with built-in AI inference capability, Lindorm provides large-scale data storage and high-performance data retrieval capabilities, supporting MiniMax to quickly build its intelligent AI search services.
TNG eWallet
TNG Digital operates Malaysia’s largest fintech platform, TNG eWallet, serving over 22 million verified users and supporting payments for more than 2 million merchants nationwide. It worked with Alibaba Cloud to support its growing user base while ensuring a seamless experience.
During the eMADANI event, TNG eWallet maintained a stable service with zero downtime, supported by Alibaba Cloud's advanced and secure cloud products.
PolarDB, ApsaraDB
By utilising the cloud-native database PolarDB, the platform effectively managed a large volume of transactions, ensuring a seamless customer experience even during peak periods.
Additionally, Alibaba Cloud provides the NoSQL database ApsaraDB for MongoDB to support TNG Digital eWallet to explore business opportunities through AI innovations.
Secure, scalable, and efficient
ZA Bank, the first and largest digital bank in Hong Kong, has fully migrated to Alibaba Cloud database services
ZA Bank, the first and largest digital bank in Hong Kong, has fully migrated to Alibaba Cloud database services to achieve secure, scalable, and efficient data management.
By adopting Alibaba Cloud relational database ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL within its core system, ZA Bank can quickly adjust computing resources and storage capacity based on business demand.
Multi-layered security protections
This on-demand scalability allows the bank to effectively manage traffic fluctuations.
Additionally, RDS MySQL provides multi-layered security protections, including data encryption, access control, security auditing, and DDoS protection to ensure data security and privacy, while meeting compliance requirements.
