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In digitalization era, banks and financial organizations are rushing their digital transformation. As part of this revolution, financial organizations produce extraordinary quantities of data about their financial and insurance procedures while using unconventional digital technologies (e.g., big data, AI, Internet of Things (IoT)) to gather, study, and fully leverage the generated data assets [1]. Furthermore, recent regulatory developments (e.g., the 2nd Payment Services Directive (PSD2) in Europe) [2] facilitate the sharing of data across financial organizations to enable the development of innovative digital finance services based on novel business models. The latter aim at lowering the barriers for new market players (e.g., payment service providers (PSPs) in the PSD2 context) to develop and roll out new services in ways that increase clients’ fulfilment and generate new income streams. Overall, financial and insurance groups take benefit of big data and IoT technologies with th...

On this occasion, I'd like to share an ebook with Open Access content published by Springer. It's entitled Database Principles And Technologies – Based on Huawei GAUSSDB. It's also an Official Textbooks for Huawei ICT Academy. Based on Huawei's GaussDB (for MySQL) cloud computing-based database, this book focuses on various cloud computing-based features and application scenarios of cloud computing-based databases. The division of the book ’ s eight chapters is as follows: Chapter 1 mainly introduces databases, including database technology overview, database technology history, relational database architecture, and mainstream application scenarios of relational databases. Chapter 2 mainly teaches database basics, including the main responsibilities and contents of database management, and introduces some common and important basic concepts of databases. Chapter 3 introduces SQL syntax, including GaussDB (for MySQL) data types, system functions and operators, which aims...