Ant Group’s self-developed database OceanBase is now open source under the Mulanpub-2.0 license. OceanBase database is a native distributed relational database, completely developed by Alibaba and Ant Group.

Project Address:gitee.com/oceanbase

OceanBase Community Edition is an open source Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database management system with a native distributed architecture. Support for financial high availability, transparent level scaling, distributed transactions, multi-tenancy, and syntax-compatible enterprise features. According to the official, OceanBase kernel has passed the test of large-scale commercial scenarios, serving a wide range of industry customers, and is now continuously building kernel technology competitiveness for the future.

According to the introduction, OceanBase database implements financial high availability on common hardware, initiating a new standard of “three places and five centers” for automatic, non-destructive disaster recovery of city-level faults. The OceanBase database was also the first distributed database in the world to pass the TPC-C benchmark, with a single cluster size of more than 1500 nodes. The OceanBase database has the following features:

  • High availability: Self-healing of a single server failure, cross-city multi-room Dr, and zero data loss meet the financial industry level 6 Dr Standard (RPO=0, RTO<=30 seconds).
  • Linear expansion: transparent expansion, automatic load balancing, application transparent horizontal expansion, cluster size can exceed 1500 nodes, data volume can reach PB level, single table records trillions of rows.
  • MySQL is highly compatible: it is compatible with the MySQL protocol, syntax, and usage habits. The MySQL client tool can directly access the OceanBase database.
  • High performance: quasi-memory level data change operation, original coding compression technology, combined with linear horizontal scaling.
  • Low cost: PC servers and low-end SSDS are used to lower storage costs with high storage compression ratio and lower computing costs with high performance. The multi-tenant hybrid storage system fully utilizes system resources.
  • Multi-tenant: The native multi-tenant architecture supports the same database cluster to provide services for multiple independent services, isolating data among tenants and reducing deployment and O&M costs.

OceanBase database supports all of Alipay’s core businesses, as well as the core business systems of hundreds of customers in banking, insurance, securities, operators and other industries.

Gitee Warehouse Address:gitee.com/oceanbase