cannot afford downtime this is especially important if the enterprise is in the banking and financial sector or an ecommerce business that is why today most enterprises look for a stable disaster recovery infrastructure from their cloud services provider both polardb and analyticdb have two different versions that are compatible with mysql and postgresql respectively this helps business organisations reduce adaptation costs both polardb and analyticdb have builtin support for high availability and support quick onsite data recovery they utilize distributed consensus protocols such as raft and snapshot technology to perform extremely fast backups and backup recovery of data so disaster recovery is made easy security is prime for all adopting the cloud with sensitive data residing within an organisation security of that data is highly crucial data security ensures that businesses retain the trust of their customers and target audience that is why when they deploy a cloud architecture within the organisation the first concern is the security of the business data that resides in the cloud again polardb and analyticdb offer very high data security by providing whitelists vpc network ssl encryption sql auditing multiple copy data storage and backup recovery they also support other standard security measures such as tde and data at rest encryption to help users diagnose and solve issues quickly alibaba apasaradb platform provides realtime monitoring of instance usage slow sql and various optimization suggestions how polardb and analyticdb is relevant for india marketindia is a fastgrowth market when it comes to ecommerce elearning media gaming mobile applications fintech etc big companies are also looking at data intelligence and data analytics for better business performance all this requires strong database systems and highly efficient data warehouse solutions organisations in these segments also need capabilities like autoscaling tiered storage architecture disaster recovery quick backup secure access to data and the ability to handle big data in realtime interactively this is where alibaba cloud comes in this with its polardb analyticdb and other apasaradb products and services disclaimer this article has been produced on behalf of alibaba by times internets mediawire team