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The author went on a trip to Las Vegas in October and started the buy mode by the way, and the Citic Bank credit card in his hand was almost maxed out. Last night, my wife ran over and said, "have you paid back the credit card of CITIC Bank?" I heard that the business system was upgraded on October 25, and all related business was suspended for one day. "

Since Citic Bank reminded the system to upgrade, it was better to return the bill as soon as possible. I checked my phone by the way and found that there was a reminder message from CITIC Bank. But then think about it, now the banking business system upgrade is generally as short as half an hour, as long as a few hours, how to upgrade the credit card business system will take a day. You know, it takes a day to upgrade the banking system, which is a big deal, because it involves 24-hour failure to provide business, which involves a wide range of areas, which not only requires a lot of preparatory work, but also needs to be submitted to the CBRC for approval.

Out of professional instinct, the author immediately thought that CITIC Bank might really make a big move this time. Then, I suddenly remembered that a few months ago, Lao Z, the database god, had previously revealed to me that Citic Bank would have a groundbreaking event at the database level in the second half of the year. I was surprised: it turned out that Citic Bank might have a big mystery in this major upgrade of the system.

This is awesome! Is this the domestic database that has gone viral in recent months to replace international brands for the first time in the core business systems of the financial industry? In other words, October 26 will be a big day, and the first domestic core business system using domestic databases will be officially launched. Therefore, in order to further confirm the news, the author specially checked on the official website of CITIC Bank.

Sure enough, Citic Bank posted a notice on its website as early as Sept. 10 detailing the suspension of credit card-related business between 22:30 on Oct. 25 and 22:30 on Oct. 26. In order to further verify this matter, the author also sought confirmation from Lao Z, the god of the database industry.

The news is indeed a big thing for domestic databases and even the entire Chinese database market. Of course, for the sake of rigor, the author does not dare to draw a final conclusion on this matter before the official announcement. However, it does not prevent the author from talking about the value and significance of domestic database for international brand substitution from a professional point of view.

For a long time, the IT architecture system of Bank of China has been following the banks of developed countries in Europe and America, from mainframes and minicomputers to databases, middleware, and even core storage, are dominated by international brands. Although "de-IOE" has become a hot topic in recent years for the consideration of self-control, in the financial industry, database, as the most important basic software, is still dominated by international brands, thanks to the advantages that international brands have accumulated over the years in terms of kernel, tools, products and so on.

The particularity of the financial field determines that its requirements for the database are the most stringent. For example, the core trading system of large commercial banks requires billions of data processing, storage and query every day, which requires that the database must have strong consistency, high reliability and strong security. Take Citic Bank's credit card business as an example, its credit card issued more than 20 million credit cards in 2013. Coupled with various marketing business scenarios related to credit cards, CITIC Bank credit card business requires extremely high business support capacity for the database.

Therefore, the significance of Citic Bank's replacement is to show full respect. It indicates that the development of domestic databases has entered a critical period. With years of investment and accumulation, the technical capabilities, product capabilities and even solution capabilities of domestic databases have made great progress. This means that domestic databases really have the ability to compete with international well-known brands in the core business system of the core industry.

Of course, we still need to wait for the news of the official announcement after the upgrade of Citic Bank system. In any case, the switch on October 25th is like the first step of the long March, it sounded the new horn of domestic databases in the market, and we also look forward to the follow-up performance of domestic databases.

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