# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 49 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 24, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Snowflake Defines AI Data Operating System: Databases Evolve from Storage Tools to Agent Foundation At the Snowflake Summit in June 2026, CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy made a statement that sparked deep industry reflection: “Among the four core components of an Agentic enterprise, the Agentic control plane is the most important.” The company, known for its data warehouse, is investing $6 billion to deepen its partnership with AWS and deeply integrate with Anthropic’s Claude, repositioning itself from a “data warehouse” to an “AI data operating system.” **Three Key Industry Judgements**: – **The biggest bottleneck in AI is not models, but data infrastructure**: Anish Sharma, Senior Managing Director at Accenture, shared that “85% of client problems are not AI problems – they are data problems.” Large models cannot magically access internal enterprise data such as order records and supply chain information – these data silos spread across dozens of systems are the real gap that AI cannot cross. – **AI consumes software, but data will not be consumed**: As agents gradually take over the workflows of […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 48 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 23, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜IDC Report: Dameng Reaches 11.3% On‑Premises Market Share, Surpassing Foreign Vendors for the First Time Recently, IDC released the “China Relational Database Software Market Tracker, H2 2025.” The report shows that in the on‑premises deployment segment of the China relational database software market, **Dameng achieved an 11.3% market share, ranking firmly among the top domestic database vendors and surpassing foreign database vendors for the first time**, with sustained growth momentum. **Key Data**: – **Total Market Size**: China’s relational database software market reached $4.83 billion in full‑year 2025, with projections to grow to $11.24 billion by 2030. – **Dameng Revenue**: Full‑year 2025 revenue reached RMB 1.306 billion, up 25.03% year‑on‑year, with core product gross margin reaching **99.73%** . – **Technology Direction**: The IDC report notes that **AI and cloud‑native have become the most important technology development directions for relational database products**. Capabilities such as in‑database inference, semantic search, data agents, and unified multi‑modal storage and retrieval are being increasingly embedded into database management systems. **AI Capability Layout**: Dameng has built native vector data types […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 47 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 22, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Alibaba Cloud PolarDB X Cluster Vector Database Officially Released, Accelerating DB4AI On June 20, Alibaba Cloud officially released PolarDB X Cluster Vector Database, providing a vector retrieval foundation for enterprise‑grade AI applications with three core advantages: extreme performance, high cost‑effectiveness, and ease of use. Built on PolarDB’s high‑availability architecture, the product supports vector retrieval of up to **16,384 dimensions** and can manage **billions** of vector records in a single table. In terms of performance, PolarDB X Cluster achieves **double the queries per second (QPS) compared to open‑source solutions**, while also supporting **PVL2 (product quantisation) auxiliary indexing and inverted indexing** to further optimise query efficiency for large‑scale vector retrieval. In terms of stability, the product provides **financial‑grade high availability** assurance, ensuring the continuity and data security of AI applications. **Core Application Scenarios**: PolarDB X Cluster is primarily designed for AI scenarios such as RAG (retrieval‑augmented generation), multi‑modal search, and personalised recommendations. By natively integrating vector retrieval capabilities, developers can perform hybrid queries on structured and unstructured data within a single platform, without the need […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 46 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 18, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜OceanBase Launches AI Integrated Solution at Financial Expo: Nearly 70% of Trillion‑Yuan Banks Have Adopted It, Ranked #1 in Distributed Market for Three Consecutive Years On June 16, the 2026 China International Financial Expo opened in Shanghai. Ant Group’s OceanBase launched its “Financial AI Integrated Data Solution,” processing transactions, analytics, and multi‑modal data within a single engine, supporting hybrid search across vectors, text, and more. It also includes built‑in data branching capability, enabling safe AI exploration and iteration in isolated environments. **Key Data**: – **Market Position**: According to IDC data, OceanBase has been ranked **#1 in market share** in China’s financial industry distributed database on‑premises deployment market for three consecutive years. – **Bank Coverage**: Nearly 70% of banks with trillion‑yuan assets have deployed their core systems on OceanBase. – **Financial Institution Coverage**: Has served over 400 financial institutions, covering state‑owned major banks, joint‑stock banks, city commercial banks, and others; 75% of leading insurance institutions, 80% of leading securities firms, and 60% of leading fund institutions have chosen OceanBase for their core business systems. […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 45 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 17, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜OceanBase Launches AI Integrated Solution at Financial Expo: Nearly 70% of Trillion‑Yuan Banks Choose It, Ranked #1 in Financial Distributed Market for Three Consecutive Years On June 16, the 2026 China International Financial Expo opened in Shanghai. Ant Group’s OceanBase launched its “Lakehouse‑Integrated AI Database for Financial Scenarios” and a financial AI integrated data solution, processing transactions, analytics, and multi‑modal data within a single engine. **Key Data**: – **Market Position**: According to IDC data, OceanBase has been ranked **#1 in market share** in China’s financial industry distributed database on‑premises deployment market for three consecutive years. – **Bank Coverage**: Nearly 70% of banks with trillion‑yuan assets have deployed their core systems on OceanBase. – **Financial Institution Coverage**: Has served over 400 financial institutions, covering state‑owned major banks, joint‑stock banks, city commercial banks, rural commercial banks, and others; 75% of leading insurance institutions, 80% of leading securities firms, and 60% of leading fund institutions have chosen OceanBase for their core business systems. **Core Capabilities of the AI Solution**: – **Lakehouse Integration**: A single engine uniformly […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 44 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 16, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜MongoDB CFO on AI Winners: Agentic AI Persistent Memory Layer as a Differentiated Core Competitiveness On June 11, MongoDB (MDB) CFO Mike Berry attended D.A. Davidson’s 2nd Annual Technology & Consumer Conference and gave clear strategic responses to two core investor questions: “Is MongoDB an AI winner?” and “When will AI revenue explode?” **Core Views**: Berry clearly stated that MongoDB’s document‑based database architecture is **inherently aligned with the AI era’s need to handle unstructured data**. Its design, which seemed unconventional twenty years ago, unexpectedly suits today’s AI needs – the document model naturally carries JSON‑format data, and the flexible schema perfectly adapts to unstructured data. Coupled with vector search, persistent memory, and deep LangChain integration, the company is becoming the data infrastructure layer for enterprise‑grade AI agents. **The “Three‑Step” Path to AI Revenue**: Berry laid out a clear framework for AI revenue growth: 1. **Phase One (current)** : Enterprise customers are conducting initial experiments around vector search, but revenue contribution is not yet significant. 2. **Phase Two**: Some pioneering enterprises (e.g., AI‑native companies) […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 43 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 15, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜One‑Third of Central SOEs Choose OceanBase for Core Systems! OceanBase Launches “AI‑Integrated Data Solution for Central and State‑owned Enterprises” On June 11, at the “2026 Information Technology Application Innovation Development Conference” held in Jinan, Shandong, OceanBase’s “Provincial Government Cloud Integrated Database Platform Solution” was selected as a “Typical Solution” in the “2025 Information Technology Application Innovation Solutions” category, receiving authoritative recognition from the Cybersecurity Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Ding Rong, General Manager of OceanBase’s Government and Enterprise Business Unit, revealed that **among nearly 100 central SOEs nationwide, over 30 have entrusted their core systems to OceanBase**, with hundreds of central and state‑owned enterprises using OceanBase to run key business systems, covering vital industries such as telecommunications, transportation, and energy. **Key Industry Implementation Data**: | Industry | Key Data | |———-|———-| | **Civil Aviation** | China Travelsky’s core system has been upgraded to a distributed domestic system, ensuring safe travel for over **700 million** passengers annually; China Southern Airlines and Sichuan Airlines have subsequently followed suit. | | […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 42 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 12, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜AI Reshapes the Underlying Logic of Databases: Industry Evolves from “Warehouse” to “Intelligent Infrastructure” On June 11, Xinhua Finance published an in‑depth report titled “AI Reshapes the Underlying Logic, Databases Ride the Wind Again.” The report points out that when enterprises no longer just ask “can we store the data,” but “can large models directly use my data to answer questions,” databases – seemingly mundane foundational software – are once again riding the wind. **Core Views**: – **Agents are the New Users**: Wang Yicheng, Vice President of Tencent Cloud, stated that the industry is redesigning database product capability systems with agents as the new users, and the database industry is entering the AI 3.0 era. – **Profound Change in the Database Mission**: In the past, databases served programmers, BI systems, and deterministic business processes. In the future, a more important task is to enable data to be understood and used by hundreds or thousands of agents. – **“Agent + Database” is the Future Software Paradigm**: Zhou Aoying, Fellow of the CCF and Director […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 41 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 11, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Dameng Applies for AI‑Based Database Intelligent O&M Patent: Moving from “Passive Firefighting” to “Self‑Healing” Databases On June 10, information from the China National Intellectual Property Administration showed that Wuhan Dameng Database Co., Ltd. applied for a patent titled “An AI‑based database intelligent operation and maintenance method and device,” with publication number CN122173469A, filed on February 5, 2026. **Core Technical Approach**: – **Multi‑dimensional Data Collection**: Collects raw data from different dimensions, including performance metrics, system logs, SQL execution statistics, etc.; – **Feature Integration and Collaborative Analysis**: Preprocesses and extracts features for each dimension, integrates multi‑dimensional features within the same time window into feature vectors, performs collaborative analysis to obtain detection results, predicted events, and anomaly events generated based on detection results; – **Root Cause Reasoning**: Performs reasoning on anomaly events to determine the **root cause** leading to the anomaly; – **Self‑healing Execution**: Comprehensively analyses anomaly events, predicted events, and root causes, dynamically selects a self‑healing strategy from a preset strategy library, and uses automated scripts to run the self‑healing strategy to restore the database. […]

# 📊 HiddenMerit Daily · Issue 40 > **Focus on Database Frontiers, Practical Insights for DBAs** > June 10, 2026 ｜ 5 Selected Global Breaking News ## 01｜Alibaba Cloud Launches MongoDB 8.3 Domestically: Three AI‑Native Capabilities, Saying Goodbye to “Add‑On” AI In early June, Alibaba Cloud became the first in China to launch MongoDB 8.3. This version deeply integrates three major AI capabilities – vector search, auto‑embedding, and intelligent O&M – into the database engine, introducing an “AI‑Native” design philosophy – not “add‑on” AI support, but letting AI capabilities natively “grow” inside the database engine, achieving native search, native vectorisation, and native O&M. **The Three AI‑Native Capabilities**: – **Native Search**: Vector and full‑text search are built into the engine layer; a single pipeline completes hybrid search combining “vector + full‑text + scalar,” with `$rankFusion` stage using the RRF algorithm for score fusion, eliminating the need for applications to switch between multiple systems. – **Native Vectorisation**: Write‑time auto‑embedding, transparent to applications, zero sync overhead; the engine layer automatically listens for data changes via Change Stream, calls models to generate vectors, writes back to documents, and triggers index updates. – **Native O&M**: Natural language management, AI‑assisted slow query analysis, index recommendations, and […]