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Owain Borna
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OceanBase: A Fast and Scalable Database for Your Applications

If you are looking for a fast and scalable database for your applications, you may want to consider OceanBase. This open-source DBMS is compatible with MySQL, but offers significantly improved performance and scalability. In fact, OceanBase is 1.9x faster than MySQL, making it an ideal choice for applications that need high-throughput and low-latency data access.

Developed by the Alibaba Group and used in production at some of the world's largest e-commerce sites, OceanBase is designed to support petabyte-scale datasets and millions of concurrent users. Whether you are building an online marketplace, a social network, or a gaming platform, OceanBase can handle your data needs with ease.

One of the key benefits of OceanBase is its distributed architecture, which allows it to automatically distribute data across multiple servers and scale horizontally to support high levels of concurrency. This is in contrast to MySQL, which is a single-node DBMS that can only scale vertically by adding more hardware resources to a single server.

In addition to its distributed architecture, OceanBase also offers several other performance-enhancing features, such as intelligent query optimization, distributed transactions, and real-time data analytics. These capabilities make it possible for OceanBase to deliver high-throughput and low-latency data access, even under heavy workloads.

If you want a fast and scalable database for your applications, give OceanBase a try. It offers many advantages over MySQL, including superior performance and the ability to support large-scale applications. Get started with OceanBase today and see the difference it can make for your project.

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Gabor Szabo

Thanks.

Slightly OT: I looked at their repo and as I can see in the CI they only compile their code, but don't run the tests. As you are familiar with the project can you tell us why?

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Gail Johnny

Thanks for sharing :)