Dmitry Grebenshchikov, Director of Import Substitution Technologies at Diasoft LLC
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:57 am
Arkady Lobas admitted that in almost eight years of experiments, the vendor has not found a single replacement for the Oracle DBMS that would provide all the functions. However, according to him, to switch to an import-independent stack, different products can be used to solve different problems. The price of this approach is the complication of the product architecture, but at the same time there is no loss of productivity and complication of the ABS integration with other systems.
, points out that there denmark whatsapp number database are already transactional databases based on PostgreSQL (open source software) on the Russian market: "A number of Russian vendors, including Diasoft, have taken control of this software and have been investing in the development of DBMS and automated migration tools for financial organizations for a long time. The main problems are that some high-load procedures, as well as the business logic of a number of processes, are specific to Western DBMSs and are difficult to transfer to PostgreSQL. These tasks are currently being solved individually for each organization. In fact, for the correct operation of the ABS on a Russian DBMS, it is necessary to make changes, including to the ABS itself, and this is a large-scale and complex task."
According to Alexander Boriskin, Deputy General Director for Development and Architecture at FlexSoft, the closest in performance, fault tolerance and scalability among Russian solutions or open source systems was Yandex's YDB. But at the same time, according to him, FlexSoft's FXL has become a truly DBMS-independent solution. When migrating to import-independent DBMSs, as Alexander Boriskin stated, FXL will use several cores, one of which will use a transit DBMS from Oracle, and the other - one of the import-independent developments. This approach at FlexSoft worked successfully when switching to Java technologies. As Alexander Lobas stated, it is possible to migrate different ABS modules to other DBMSs component-by-component, with the possibility of a temporary rollback if something goes wrong. In addition, according to him, the use of this approach allows updating software without stopping services.
Oleg Morgun, head of the technology development department at the FinTech Association, called the successful transition of the Russian ABS to an import-independent DBMS stack a significant event for the entire industry: "The Russian banking sector has long used exclusively Russian ABS. The problem was precisely in migrating to DBMS from Russian developers or open source products, especially within the timeframes set by the regulator."
Dmitry Grebenshchikov points out that although import substitution allows for a reduction in risks, ensuring independence from the actions of foreign vendors and security, it also requires costs and, as a rule, does not lead to an increase in the financial results of a business: "For this reason, most organizations were engaged in import substitution of software on a residual basis, until it became an urgent need. Many large banks have long been implementing projects in this area, but small financial organizations may lack the resources and qualified DBMS specialists in the required quantities."
The developers of ABS R-Style Softlab and the Center for Financial Technologies did not respond to ComNews' requests. "T1 Integration" declined to comment. ITGLOBAL.COM was unable to provide a comment.
, points out that there denmark whatsapp number database are already transactional databases based on PostgreSQL (open source software) on the Russian market: "A number of Russian vendors, including Diasoft, have taken control of this software and have been investing in the development of DBMS and automated migration tools for financial organizations for a long time. The main problems are that some high-load procedures, as well as the business logic of a number of processes, are specific to Western DBMSs and are difficult to transfer to PostgreSQL. These tasks are currently being solved individually for each organization. In fact, for the correct operation of the ABS on a Russian DBMS, it is necessary to make changes, including to the ABS itself, and this is a large-scale and complex task."
According to Alexander Boriskin, Deputy General Director for Development and Architecture at FlexSoft, the closest in performance, fault tolerance and scalability among Russian solutions or open source systems was Yandex's YDB. But at the same time, according to him, FlexSoft's FXL has become a truly DBMS-independent solution. When migrating to import-independent DBMSs, as Alexander Boriskin stated, FXL will use several cores, one of which will use a transit DBMS from Oracle, and the other - one of the import-independent developments. This approach at FlexSoft worked successfully when switching to Java technologies. As Alexander Lobas stated, it is possible to migrate different ABS modules to other DBMSs component-by-component, with the possibility of a temporary rollback if something goes wrong. In addition, according to him, the use of this approach allows updating software without stopping services.
Oleg Morgun, head of the technology development department at the FinTech Association, called the successful transition of the Russian ABS to an import-independent DBMS stack a significant event for the entire industry: "The Russian banking sector has long used exclusively Russian ABS. The problem was precisely in migrating to DBMS from Russian developers or open source products, especially within the timeframes set by the regulator."
Dmitry Grebenshchikov points out that although import substitution allows for a reduction in risks, ensuring independence from the actions of foreign vendors and security, it also requires costs and, as a rule, does not lead to an increase in the financial results of a business: "For this reason, most organizations were engaged in import substitution of software on a residual basis, until it became an urgent need. Many large banks have long been implementing projects in this area, but small financial organizations may lack the resources and qualified DBMS specialists in the required quantities."
The developers of ABS R-Style Softlab and the Center for Financial Technologies did not respond to ComNews' requests. "T1 Integration" declined to comment. ITGLOBAL.COM was unable to provide a comment.