April 2026 brought a strong wave of AI-native capabilities across Alibaba Cloud database portfolio. Highlights include Lindorm AI Engine for in-databa.
Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission Service (DTS) supports three task types: migration, synchronisation, and subscription, each with distinct mechanics and use cases.
This article examines the architecture of Alibaba Cloud PolarDB, focusing on compute-storage separation, PolarFS with ParallelRaft consensus, and physical redo replication.
This article introduces how PolarDB materialized views eliminate on-the-fly processing to boost query performance by up to 100x.
This article introduces PolarDB's columnar table technology that reduces storage costs while enabling high-performance analytics for integrated lakehouse architectures.
This article introduces the analysis steps for traffic skew.
This article introduces Alibaba Cloud PolarStore's software-hardware collaborative compression architecture for cloud-native databases, which received a Best Paper Award nomination at USENIX FAST'26.
This article shares best practices to diagnose and resolve data skew.
Discover the latest database product updates for March 2026 in our informative infographic!
The article explains how PolarDB-X's JDBC driver enables client-side high availability detection and automatic failover without external proxies.
Discover the latest database product updates for February 2026 in our informative infographic!
This article introduces DuckDB-paimon, an open-source PolarDB extension that lets DuckDB query Apache Paimon data lakes natively without external clusters.
This article introduces CloudJump II's MVD technology for solving consistency challenges and enabling advanced capabilities in cloud databases with shared storage architecture.
This article introduces why MySQL B-tree height stays within 4–5 layers even with tens of billions of rows, debunking the myth that single tables must be sharded after 5 million rows.
This article introduces PostgreSQL's blink-tree implementation for high-concurrency B-tree operations using link pointers and optimized locking mechanisms.
This article discusses the benefits of PolarDB and explains how to claim resources for free.
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled AI Lakebase architecture alongside a suite of upgrades for its flagship database, PolarDB at PolarDB Developer Conference in China.
Discover the latest database product updates for November 2025 in our informative infographic!
The article introduces PolarDB-X v2.4.2, featuring enhanced open-source ecosystem integration via new client drivers, the open-sourced polardbx-proxy,...
The article introduces PolarDB IMCI’s native columnar full-text indexing for efficient, integrated text and hybrid vector search—eliminating the need for external search engines.
