About Me

I am Yingqiang Zhang(章颖强，alibaba alias:江疑), a Senior Staff Engineer/Director at Alibaba Cloud, currently leading Transaction & Storage Engine Teams for both PolarDB MySQL and PolarDB PostgreSQL. I am engaged in the technical R&D of the cloud-native database, and research in database/system technologies. My main research areas include exploring the next-generation architecture for cloud-native databases, distributed system, and co-design with emergent hardware technologies. Before joining Alibaba, I was a part of the database team at Baidu. I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 2009 and 2012 both from Zhejiang University.

Research & Development

[AliSQL] I have been leading the kernel development of AliSQL since 2014 and have taken on the role of database kernel leader for Alibaba Group’s Double 11 event for many years. Additional information

[X-DB]I took charge of the kernel R&D for X-DB since 2016. By 2017, X-DB was fully launched and has become the most extensively deployed database system across the entire Alibaba Group. Additional information

[PolarDB] Since 2018, I have dedicated myself to the kernel R&D of PolarDB, currently leading Transaction & Storage Engine Teams for both PolarDB MySQL and PolarDB PostgreSQL. My leadership has driven the architectural evolution of PolarDB, encompassing the Serverless, Multi-Primary Architecture, Distributed Shared-Memory, and Consensus Protocol.

Awards

• The First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award by China Computer Association 2024/Third Contributor (CCF科技进步一等奖/第三贡献者)
• SIGMOD 2024 Industry Track Best Paper （Co-first Author）
• ICDE 2024 Best Industry and Application Paper Award （First Author）

Selected Publications

• [SIGMOD] PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory.
  • by Xinjun Yang∗, Yingqiang Zhang∗, Hao Chen, Feifei Li, Bo Wang, Jing Fang, Chuan Sun, Yuhui Wang (*equal contribution)
  • In Proceedings of 43nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2024) SIGMOD Industry Track Best Paper
• [ICDE] Towards a Shared-storage-based Serverless Database Achieving Seamless Scale-up and Read Scale-out.
  • by Yingqiang Zhang, Xinjun Yang, Hao Chen, Feifei Li, Jiawei Xu, Jie Zhou, Xudong Wu, Qiang Zhang
  • In Proceedings of 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE 2024) Best Industry and Application Paper Award
• [VLDB] PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads.
  • by Xinjun Yang, Yingqiang Zhang, Hao Chen, Chuan Sun, Feifei Li, Wenchao Zhou
  • In Proceedings of 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023)
• [ASPLOS] Persistent Memory Disaggregation for Cloud-Native Relational Databases.
  • by Chaoyi Ruan, Yingqiang Zhang, Chao Bi, Xiaosong Ma, Hao Chen, Feifei Li, Xinjun Yang, Cheng Li, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Yinlong Xu
  • In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2023)
• [ICDE] PolarDB-X: An Elastic Distributed Relational Database for Cloud-Native Applications.
  • by Wei Cao, Feifei Li, Gui Huang, Jianghang Lou, Jianwei Zhao, Dengcheng He, Mengshi Sun, Yingqiang Zhang, Sheng Wang, Xueqiang Wu, Han Liao, Zilin Chen, Xiaojian Fang, Mo Chen, Chenghui Liang, Yanxin Luo, Huanming Wang, Songlei Wang, Zhanfeng Ma, Xinjun Yang, Xiang Peng, Yubin Ruan, Yuhui Wang, Jie Zhou, Jianying Wang, Qingda Hu, Junbin Kang
  • In Proceedings of 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE 2022)
• [VLDB] Towards Cost-Effective and Elastic Cloud Database Deployment via Memory Disaggregation.
  • by Yingqiang Zhang, Chaoyi Ruan, Cheng Li, Xinjun Yang, Wei Cao, Feifei Li, Bo Wang, Jing Fang, Yuhui Wang, Jingze Huo, Chao Bi
  • In Proceedings of 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021)
• [SIGMOD] PolarDB Serverless: A Cloud Native Database for Disaggregated Data Centers.
  • by Wei Cao, Yingqiang Zhang, Xinjun Yang, Feifei Li, Sheng Wang, Qingda Hu, Xuntao Cheng, Zongzhi Chen, Zhenjun Liu, Jing Fang, Bo Wang, Yuhui Wang, Haiqing Sun, Ze Yang, Zhushi Cheng, Sen Chen, Jian Wu, Wei Hu, Jianwei Zhao, Yusong Gao, Songlu Cai, Yunyang Zhang, Jiawang Tong
  • In Proceedings of 40nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2021)
• [JCRD] X-DB: Software and Hardware Co-Designed Database System.
  • by Zhang Tieying, Huang Gui, Zhang Yingqiang, Wang Jianying, Hu Wei, Zhao Diankui, He Dengcheng
  • In Journal of Computer Research and Development (JCRD 2018)

Professional Services

Conference Program Committee:

• 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’25)
• 25th ChinaSys Workshop (ChinaSys’24)
• 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’24)

# Last Update: Nov 2024