# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 59 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 21, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Oracle Issues Urgent Warning: July 21 Release Update to Fix Large Number of High‑Risk Vulnerabilities, Immediate Deployment Recommended On July 13, Oracle issued an urgent security warning, strongly recommending that all customers running supported Oracle Database versions (including Oracle Database 19c and Oracle AI Database 26ai) immediately test and deploy the Release Update (RU) after its release on July 21. **Background**: New frontier AI models are significantly lowering the barrier to discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities – these models can identify weaknesses, analyse software changes, reverse‑engineer security patches, and develop potential attack paths at unprecedented speed and scale. AI models are also becoming increasingly adept at combining multiple weaknesses across the application and data stack into complex attacks, even when individual weaknesses do not themselves pose a serious risk. As a result, protecting systems solely at the network or application layer is no longer sufficient; enterprises must protect the entire technology stack. **Fixes Included in This RU**: Oracle has collaborated with state‑of‑the‑art models from Anthropic and OpenAI to proactively identify and fix potential […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 58 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 20, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜CAICT: Domestic Databases Enter Core System “Deep Water,” AI‑Native Leads New Industry Landscape On July 9, at the 2026 Trustworthy Database Development Conference, CAICT released the “Database Development Research Report (2026).” The report notes that domestic databases have basically completed peripheral system replacement and have officially entered the **critical business system breakthrough phase**. **Key Data**: – The global database market reached **$131.6 billion** in 2025 (approximately RMB 894.09 billion). – The Chinese database market reached **$9.49 billion** in 2025 (approximately RMB 64.48 billion), and is expected to reach **RMB 97.974 billion** by 2028, with a CAGR of 13.06%. – The number of domestic database vendors has shrunk from a peak of 167 to 94, with a clear head‑concentration effect and an intensifying “Matthew effect.” **AI‑Native Becomes the Main Theme**: The report points out that database technology is accelerating its evolution toward the **AI‑native direction**, and the global database industry is entering a new phase of landscape restructuring. The role of databases is upgrading from “underlying support systems” to “core engines enabling intelligent decision‑making […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 56 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 6, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Kingware Releases Manufacturing Scenario Database Evolution White Paper: SQL Server Replacement Enters “Deep Water” On July 5, CETC Kingware published a technical article titled “Database Evolution in Manufacturing Scenarios: How Kingware Replaces SQL Server,” pointing out that the data surge on industrial shop floors has exceeded the processing capacity of single‑node systems. Traditional database architectures that rely on vertical scaling are facing unprecedented performance challenges. Over the next 1‑3 years, manufacturing enterprises will no longer face only the “choice of replacement,” but must answer the strategic question: “How do we build an autonomous data foundation in the context of de‑IOE?” **Three Paradigm Shifts**: 1. **Hybrid Workloads Become the Norm**: The IT architecture of modern factories is shifting from separated OLTP and OLAP to HTAP mode. The same data system must simultaneously handle tens of thousands of device instruction writes per second and minute‑level production report analysis. 2. **Distributed Architecture Becomes a Hard Requirement**: When a single table exceeds 100 million rows with daily increments exceeding 1 million rows, the index maintenance cost of […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 57 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 17, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜CAICT Releases “Database Development Research Report (2026)”: China Market to Reach RMB 98 Billion by 2028, AI‑Native Becomes the Main Theme On July 9, at the 2026 Trustworthy Database Development Conference, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) officially released the “Database Development Research Report (2026),” comprehensively revealing the latest landscape and evolution directions of the global and Chinese database markets. **Key Data**: – **Global Market**: The global database market reached **$131.6 billion** in 2025 (approximately RMB 894.09 billion). – **Chinese Market**: The Chinese database market reached **$9.49 billion** in 2025 (approximately RMB 64.48 billion), accounting for 7.2% of the global market. By 2028, the total Chinese database market is expected to reach **RMB 97.974 billion**, with a compound annual growth rate of **13.06%** . – **Industry Landscape**: There are 394 database product providers globally, with China and the US leading in vendor count. The number of global open‑source and closed‑source products is roughly balanced. Commercial databases account for over 70% in China, while the proportion of open‑source databases is increasing. […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 55 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 6, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Kingware Releases White Paper on Database Evolution in Manufacturing Scenarios: SQL Server Replacement Enters “Deep Water” On July 5, CETC Kingware published a technical article titled “Database Evolution in Manufacturing Scenarios: How Kingware Replaces SQL Server,” pointing out that the data surge on industrial shop floors has exceeded the processing capacity of single‑node systems. Traditional database architectures that rely on vertical scaling are facing unprecedented performance challenges. Over the next 1‑3 years, manufacturing enterprises will no longer face only the “choice of replacement,” but must answer the strategic question: “How do we build an autonomous data foundation in the context of de‑IOE?” **Three Paradigm Shifts**: 1. **Hybrid Workloads Become the Norm**: The IT architecture of modern factories is shifting from separated OLTP and OLAP to HTAP mode. The same data system must simultaneously handle tens of thousands of device instruction writes per second and minute‑level production report analysis. 2. **Distributed Architecture Becomes a Hard Requirement**: When a single table exceeds 100 million rows with daily increments exceeding 1 million rows, the index maintenance […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 54 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 5, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜OceanBase CEO Yang Bing: AI Era Brings Important Opportunity to Redefine Foundational Software On July 2, OceanBase CEO Yang Bing published an opinion article in People’s Daily titled “The AI Era Brings an Important Opportunity to Redefine Foundational Software.” The article points out that as large model capabilities increasingly converge, the focus of AI competition is shifting from “whose model is stronger” to “who can enable AI to truly understand the business.” Databases are being pushed to the core of AI infrastructure, and for the first time, China has the opportunity to evolve from a “follower” of foundational software standards to a “co‑definer.” **Core Judgement**: “An AI database is not a simple patch to the previous generation of products, but a reconstruction of the underlying infrastructure.” Yang Bing believes that databases are, for the first time, encountering non‑human users – agents. What agents need is a complete multi‑modal world. AI databases must natively possess three key capabilities: context (precise information supply), scale (supporting tens of millions of agents with independent data spaces), and […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 53 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 2, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜OceanBase Releases “Lakehouse‑Integrated” AI Database: Yang Bing Says China Has Opportunity to Define Next‑Gen Database Paradigm On June 29, OceanBase officially released its **Lakehouse‑Integrated AI Database** for the AI era, proposing “Lakehouse Integration” as the core architecture – unifying the openness and massive storage capabilities of data lakes, the transaction processing and analytical capabilities of databases, and multi‑modal data processing capabilities into a single strongly‑consistent data foundation, enabling agents to obtain complete business context in one go. **Core Judgement**: OceanBase CEO Yang Bing believes that the bottleneck for AI implementation is shifting from “whether the model can think” to “whether it understands the business.” Model capabilities are converging rapidly, and business differentiation is shifting toward the data layer. Data consumers are shifting from “humans” to agents, and the form of data is shifting from structured to multi‑modal. Databases must be rebuilt from the architectural layer rather than patched. In a People’s Daily opinion piece, Yang Bing stated: “We have the opportunity to stand on the same starting line as our overseas counterparts and […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 52 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > July 1, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜OceanBase Releases “Lakehouse‑Integrated” AI Database: One Engine Replaces Transaction DB + Data Warehouse + Vector DB + Data Lake On June 29, OceanBase officially released its **Lakehouse‑Integrated AI Database** for the AI era, proposing “Lakehouse Integration” as the core architecture – unifying the openness and massive storage capabilities of data lakes, the transaction processing and analytical capabilities of databases, and multi‑modal data processing capabilities into a single strongly‑consistent data foundation, enabling agents to obtain complete business context in one go, so that AI can truly “understand” the enterprise. **Core Judgement**: OceanBase CEO Yang Bing believes that the bottleneck for AI implementation is shifting from “whether the model can think” to “whether it understands the business.” Over the past three years, large model capabilities have rapidly advanced, and compute power has continued to break through, but enterprise AI implementation has not yet delivered the expected value release. Model capabilities are converging rapidly, and business differentiation is shifting toward the data layer. Data consumers are shifting from “humans” to “agents,” and the form of data […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 51 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 26, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Alibaba Cloud Tops China Relational Database Market for Seventh Consecutive Year with 26.1% Market Share On June 24, IDC released the “China Relational Database Software Market Tracker, H2 2025.” The report shows that Alibaba Cloud ranked first with 26.1% full‑year overall market share, achieving a **seven‑consecutive‑year championship** since 2019. China’s relational database software market reached $4.83 billion in 2025, up 14.5% year‑on‑year. **Public Cloud Market**: Alibaba Cloud’s full‑year 2025 market share reached 37.6%, further increasing to 38.1% in the second half, with its leading advantage continuing to expand. **On‑Premises Market**: Alibaba Cloud’s revenue grew 25.4% year‑on‑year, far exceeding the industry average of 11.1%, with continued implementation cases at the four major state‑owned banks and central SOE headquarters in government and finance sectors. **Market Forecast**: IDC projects China’s relational database software market will reach $11.24 billion by 2030, with a 2025‑2030 CAGR of 18.4% and a domestic production rate exceeding 70%. AI integration has become the most important product and technology trend in relational databases – “AI for DB” improves autonomous operations, while “DB […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 50 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 25, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Dameng Selected as Leader in Domestic Database Vendor Capability Quadrant, Market Position Authoritatively Confirmed On June 23, Xinchuang World released the “2026 China Domestic Database Vendor Capability Quadrant” report. Dameng was selected into the “Leader Quadrant” based on its full‑stack self‑developed technology, deep industry accumulation, and mature ecosystem, continuing to lead the core domestic database track. **Evaluation Dimensions**: The report uses product strength and strategic determination as the main evaluation dimensions, with ecosystem attractiveness as a supplementary indicator, to comprehensively assess mainstream domestic database vendors. The report notes that the domestic database industry has seen significant consolidation, with resources accelerating toward leading vendors, and currently only about 20 vendors have entered the mainstream spotlight. **Dameng Core Data**: – 2025 Revenue: **RMB 1.306 billion**, up 25.03% year‑on‑year – Net profit attributable to shareholders: **RMB 517 million**, up 42.76% year‑on‑year – Q1 2026 Revenue: **RMB 411 million**, up 59.09% year‑on‑year; net profit attributable to shareholders RMB 151 million, up 54.25% year‑on‑year – Core product gross margin: 99.73%; software product usage authorisation revenue accounts for 92.55% […]