Why developers like OceanBase

What is OceanBase?

It is a native distributed relational database. It is developed entirely by Alibaba and Ant Group. It is built on a common server cluster. Based on the Paxos protocol and its distributed structure, it provides high availability and linear scalability. It is not dependent on specific hardware architectures.

OceanBase is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.

OceanBase is an open source tool with 7.4K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to OceanBase's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses OceanBase?

Developers

My Stack

OceanBase Integrations

MySQL

OceanBase's Features

High availability Single server failure recovers automatically. OceanBase Database supports cross-city disaster tolerance for multiple IDCs and zero data loss. OceanBase Database meets the financial industry Level 6 disaster recovery standard (RPO=0, RTO<=30 seconds)
Linear scalability OceanBase Database scales transparently to applications and balances the system load automatically. Its cluster can contain more than 1500 nodes. The data volume can reach petabytes. The records in a single table can be more than a trillion rows
Highly compatible with MySQL OceanBase Database is compatible with MySQL protocol and syntax. You can access to OceanBase Database by using MySQL client
High performance OceanBase Database supports quasi memory level data change and exclusive encoding compression. Together with the linear scalability, OceanBase Database provides high performance
Low cost OceanBase Database uses PC servers and cheap SSDs. Its high storage compression ratio and high performance also reduce the storage cost and the computing cost
Multi-tenancy OceanBase Database supports native multi-tenancy architecture. One cluster supports multiple businesses. Data is isolated among tenants. This reduces the deployment, operation, and maintenance costs

OceanBase Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to OceanBase?

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

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