OceanBase
- About
- Distributed SQL database for transactions and analytics. Open-source alternative to Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora.
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- No. 400
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- Data & Content
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Overview
OceanBase is a distributed relational database developed by Ant Group. Built on the Paxos protocol, it provides high availability and linear scalability on ordinary server clusters, and handles both transactional and analytical workloads (HTAP).
What it does well
The project cites clusters of 1,500 nodes holding petabytes and a trillion rows, 70–90% lower storage costs, zero data loss (RPO = 0) and recovery in under 8 seconds. It's MySQL-compatible, so applications can migrate from MySQL. You can try it as a single Docker container or deploy it on Kubernetes with ob-operator.
Why it’s in the collection
OceanBase is a database proven at very large scale that one team can run for both everyday transactions and real-time analytics. It's Apache-licensed.
On GitHub
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 0
- Commits
- 0
- Repository
- oceanbase/oceanbase
Languages
- C++ 97.5%
- Python 1.6%
- Other 0.9%
Compared with
Oracle DatabaseCommercial relational database.
Amazon AuroraAWS's managed MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible database.
TiDBNo. 266Open-source distributed SQL database.
See every open-source alternative to Amazon Aurora in the collection.



