Hologres and Redshift are both data warehousing solutions, but they have some differences in terms of features, architecture, and target use cases.Underlying Infrastructure Hologres: Built on Alibaba Cloud's Apsara distributed computing platform, Hologres leverages the underlying infrastructure for storage, computation, and management. It benefits from Alibaba's expertise in cloud-native architecture and real-time data processing. Redshift: Amazon Redshift is based on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture, designed to distribute and parallelize queries across multiple nodes for fa...

On November 28th, PinDuoDuo(PDD) released its financial report for the third quarter of 2023, ending on September 30th. The revenue for the third quarter was 688.4 billion RMB, showing a year-on-year growth of 93.9%. The net profit, according to the U.S. General Accounting Standards, reached 15.54 billion RMB, with a net profit margin of 22.6%. PDD attributed its overall positive performance to the accelerated recovery of the consumer market and the vigorous implementation of its "high-quality development" strategy throughout the year.With that, PDD's market value is almost the same as th...

On November 24th, according to TianYanCha(A Chinese website to check company registration information), Hangzhou Majia Kitchen Food Co., Ltd. was established on November 22nd. The legal representative is PAU JASON JOHN, and the registered capital is 10 million RMB.The ownership information shows that the company is wholly owned by Hangzhou Dajingtou Er Shi Er Hao Cultural Art Co., Ltd., of which Alibaba founder Jack Ma holds a 99.9% stake.The business scope of this new company includes food sales (only pre-packaged food), import and export of goods, wholesale of edible agricultural products, w...

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According to a recent change record from Chinese company registration information portal, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang is no longer the president of TaoBao Software Co. Ltd. His successor is Shan Dai, who is one of the founders of Alibaba and now Taobao CEO.Along with the change, Daniel also quits as the president of Tmall technology company which is also one of the subsidiaries of Alibaba Group focusing on big brands.Taobao (China) Software Co., Ltd. was established in December 2004 with a registered capital of USD 690 million. Its business scope includes resear...

During the weekend, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba gains spotlight from Chinese general public due to a hot discussion going on on various Chinese social media platforms where a female employee alleges that her supervisor(alias Yi Qu) conducted sex harassment on her during a previous business trip.The case happened a couple of weeks back where the female employee at Alibaba was asked by her direct supervisor to go for a business trip to Shandong province(a northern province in China), she initially declined the request due to severe weather condition(typhoon Yanhua). However her supervis...

Jack Ma, Alibaba founder and chairman, retires today. Today is the Teacher's day in China and also the 20th anniversary of Alibaba. It's a special day and also a memorable day for all Alibaba employees including employee No.1 Jack Ma.Ma steps down as chairman today as he promised 10 years ago when he was 45. Just a few years back in 2013, he left his position as Alibaba CEO. His successor will be Daniel Zhang who is the current CEO of Alibaba. After today, Jack will start his new life outside of Alibaba as he mentioned. He would invest more effort and time on other areas like education, c...

Fastjson just fixed a bug which might cause service down a few days ago. This bug is caused by some mishandling of special character \x which is an escaped character to indicate hexdecimal number. The impact of this bug would be big if the attacker constructs a malicious data which would cause the service down. The code which causes the issue is in com.alibaba.fastjson.parser.JSONLexerBase#scanString, when a JSON string is passed in, fastjson would parse the string character by character, when it finds the \x, it would try to process the following two characters automatically an...