Alibaba Cloud PolarDB
Alibaba Cloud PolarDB is a next-generation cloud-native relational database service that combines the performance and availability of traditional commercial databases with the elasticity and cost-effectiveness of cloud services. It features a shared-storage architecture separating compute and…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2017
- Category
- database
- Problem solved
- PolarDB was created to address the challenges of traditional monolithic relational databases, such as limited horizontal scalability (especially for write-intensive workloads), high operational complexity for high availability and disaster recovery, slow recovery times, and inefficient resource utilization due to tightly coupled compute and storage in cloud environments.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Various enterprises leveraging Alibaba Cloud for e-commerce, finance, gaming, IoT, and other cloud-native applications
- Alibaba Group (Taobao, Tmall, Alipay)