PolarDB Global Hackathon 2023

Explore PolarDB in the limitless, open-theme innovation challenge.

Hackathon Overview
PolarDB, the new-generation cloud-native relational database service developed by Alibaba Cloud, is fully compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL and highly compatible with Oracle. PolarDB is developed by Alibaba Cloud, it provides high performance and high availability of commercial database with ease to use. This contest inspires developers and enterprises to use PolarDB to empower innovation.
Open to Global Developers and Enterprises
Leverage PolarDB to Build Innovative Projects
$30,000 USD Cash Prizes for Winners

Prizes and Benefits

The final winners will get prizes including cash and customized gifts.

1st Prize: 1 Team
$10,000 USD Cash Prize (Pre-Tax)
Winner Certificate
Exclusive Merchandise
2nd Prize: 2 Teams
$5,000 USD Cash Prize (Pre-Tax)
Winner Certificate
Exclusive Merchandise
3rd Prize: 3 Teams
$2,000 USD Cash Prize (Pre-Tax)
Winner Certificate
Exclusive Merchandise
Innovation Award: 8 Teams
$500 USD Cash Prize (Pre-Tax)
Winner Certificate
Exclusive Merchandise

Schedule

How to Join?

Please follow the steps below to register for the hackathon, get free PolarDB instances and submit your entry.

Create an Alibaba Cloud Account

Please complete your information and add a payment method or pass student verification.

Register for Hackathon on Tianchi

Please make sure you have registered on Tianchi first.

Get PolarDB Free Trial

Follow this guide to get PolarDB instances for free and start building your solution.

Submit Your Solution

Please make sure your submission meets the requirements.

Enrollment Rules and FAQ:
  • Contestants must have signed up for an Alibaba Cloud account to register for the hackathon. And in order to activate PolarDB, Contestants must either add a payment method or pass student verification.
  • Contestants can compete either individually or on a team of up to 5 members. The members of the team cannot be changed after the team merger deadline. The cash prize will be only given to one participate for each winning team and cannot be separated.
  • A qualified submission must use PolarDB for MySQL or PolarDB for PostgreSQL. You can also get additional points by using other recommended tools.
  • Members of Alibaba Group can participate in the contest, but are excluded from the prizes.

Submission Requirements & Judging Criteria

In the challenge, contestants are required to use PolarDB for MySQL or PolarDB for PostgreSQL to build projects, and below are the submission requirements and judging criteria.

Submission Requirement
Please note, all the submitted files must be in English.

PPT slides are REQUIRED for sharing your project idea and design, explain how you use PolarDB in your project and present a demo of your project. You may use this template to make your slides.

Presentation video is optional but highly recommended for judges to have better understand about your project.

Zip file containing your source code and your sample application is highly recommended. Please also provide the README for judges to run the application.

Judging Criteria
In addition to the scores you can get below, by uploading your presentation video to YouTube or sharing your project on GitHub, you can get 5% additional scores. If you upload your work to YouTube or GitHub, please attach the link to your submission slides.

Technical Implementation: 40%

    How well the application was executed by the developer and how well PolarDB was executed in the submission. Using PolarDB advanced features is highly recommended. Please read the Hackathon guide to learn more about the features.

Commercial or Social Value: 30%

    The submission is commercially viable, or has social value; the project plan is complete and has clear goals. The submission is innovative, distinct from well-developed industry themes and solutions, and outperforms existing products. The value and innovation of the submission are clearly demonstrated.

Innovation and Creativity: 20%

    The originality and creativity of the project.

Usage of Alibaba Cloud products: 10%

    In addition to PolarDB, one or multiple Alibaba Cloud products are consumed by your account(s) and used in your solution, including for training models or building your working demo.

Judges

Selina Yuan

Alibaba Group VP & Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International President

Selina Yuan is Alibaba Group VP & International President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, a leading cloud platform in Asia and top three worldwide. She leads the international division of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Business Unit, heading a global team across APAC, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East and enabling cloud technology for millions of customers worldwide. Selina brings more than 20 years of experience leading and growing technology businesses globally.

Feifei Li

Alibaba Group VP & Alibaba Cloud Intelligence President of Database Products Business

Dr. Feifei Li is Vice President at Alibaba Group, ACM/IEEE Fellow. He is the President of the Database Product Business Unit at Alibaba Cloud, as well as the director of the Database and Storage Lab of DAMO academy. He has won multiple awards from ACM and IEEE and led the R&D efforts of cloud-native database systems and products at Alibaba.

Sunny Bains

Software Architect at TiDB

Sunny Bains, is currently working on TiDB cloud server less at PingCAP, focusing on improving performance and resource control. Before joining PingCAP, he worked for Oracle where he was the lead of the InnoDB team. He has been writing software for longer than he can remember. Prior to joining Oracle he wrote a database engine from scratch for a distributed database product at his previous employer. The networked database was used in a mission critical environment in the airline industry with very strict service level guarantees.

Xinjun (Jimmy) Yang

Researcher, Product Director of PolarDB for MySQL, Alibaba Cloud

Xinjun (Jimmy) Yang is the Researcher of Alibaba Group and Product Director of PolarDB for MySQL, Database Group, Alibaba Cloud. Before joining Alibaba, he worked as InnoDB Architect in Oracle MySQL Team and earlier as a database manager in the Sybase Enterprise Server Team, responsible for index access and engine resource manager of its flagship product, Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE).

Guangzhou Zhang

Senior Staff Engineer, Product Director of PolarDB for PostgreSQL, Alibaba Cloud

Guangzhou (Endward) Zhang is the senior staff engineer and the product director of PolarDB for PostgreSQL in Alibaba Cloud. Before joining Alibaba, he worked on database kernel development in IBM Db2 team. He has more than 15 years of experience in SQL optimization, federation, and cloud database development.

Micheal Wang

General Manager of Database Products & Solutions, Alibaba Cloud

Michael Wang is the General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Database Product Business Unit, leading the product management, solutions, ecosystem development, branding development, and user experience of the Alibaba Cloud Database. He served customers in multiple industries and has more than 20 years of experience in data infrastructure design, data management, data modeling, critical business capacity planning, HA & DR implementation, performance tuning, and O&M.

Yingqiang Zhang

Senior Staff Engineer at Database Group, Alibaba Cloud

Yingqiang Zhang is a Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba Cloud Database Product Business Unit. He focuses on the transaction engine and novel OLTP architecture like multi-master / serverless / etc. Currently, he leads a R&D team responsible for the transaction engine, smart gateway and architecture evolution of PolarDB MySQL. Several related technological breakthroughs have been published in SIGMOD/VLDB/ASPLOS, etc.

Jianying Wang

Staff Engineer at Database Group, Alibaba Cloud

Jianying Wang is a Staff Engineer at the Database Product Business Unit at Alibaba Cloud. His main research areas cover LSM-tree storage engine and HTAP database system. He currently leads a development team responsible for the X-Engine storage engine and In-Memory Column Index in PolarDB MySQL.

Zongzhi Chen

Senior Staff Engineer at Database Group, Alibaba Cloud

Zongzhi Chen is a Senior Staff Engineer at the Database Product Business Unit at Alibaba Cloud. He is currently working on shared storage architecture of PolarDB for Mysql. Focusing on the high performance InnoDB storage Engine on Cloud storage and new hardware, Zongzhi has more than 10 years of experience in the database area.

Jiong Xie

Senior Staff Engineer at Database & Storage Lab of DAMO Academy

Dr. Jiong Xie is the Director of the multi-model direction of the Database and Storage Lab, DAMO Academy. He has more than 20 years of experience in multi-model data management, processing, and analysis. His research interests include 3D digital twin database, raster database, big trajectory data processing and NoSQL distributed system. The spatio-temporal database engine Ganos developed by his team has been applied to a total of 45 different application directions.

Zunbao Feng

Staff Engineer at Database Group, Alibaba Cloud

Zunbao Feng is the staff engineer of PolarDB for PostgreSQL at Alibaba Cloud Database. He is currently working on the cloud-native HTAP architecture of PolarDB for PostgreSQL, focusing on database high performance/storage /distribution. He has more than 12 years of experience in database kernel optimization, and had experience with Alibaba search engine kernel development, ErlangVM optimization, PolarStore distributed storage.

Le Cai

Senior Staff Engineer at Database Group, Alibaba Cloud

Dr. Le Cai is the senior staff engineer of PolarDB for PostgreSQL at Alibaba Cloud Database. He is currently working on serverless/high performance & high reliability/distribution of PolarDB for PostgreSQL. Dr. Le Cai has more than 16 years of experience in the database area, before joining Alibaba, he worked on database kernel R&D in Huawei US lab and IBM Db2.

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