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What FinTech Infrastructure Demands in the AI Era

OceanBase has spent years working alongside leading fintech companies like AliPay, GCash, and DANA. Here's what we've learned about what fintech data infrastructure really needs, and how AI is raising the bar, and how OceanBase addresses the needs with an unified architecture.

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Evan YangApril 30, 2026
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Designing Disaster Recovery with OceanBase: A Failure-Domain Playbook
ENGINEERING

Designing Disaster Recovery with OceanBase: A Failure-Domain Playbook

How to choose the right OceanBase disaster recovery architecture by failure domain - Server, Zone/IDC, Region, or full cluster - with a decision matrix.

Zhennan Wang May 29, 2026
Why Your Vector Database Benchmark Is Wrong for AI Agents
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Why Your Vector Database Benchmark Is Wrong for AI Agents

Under streaming AI workloads, vector databases see high P99 jitter (1.1×–10.3×) under concurrency. seekdb v1.3.0’s fixed delta+snapshot HNSW avoids this, delivering 22× QPS and 19× P99 gains over prior version.

Mike LiuMay 26, 2026
What Mission-Critical SaaS Really Demands From a Database
ENGINEERING

What Mission-Critical SaaS Really Demands From a Database

Multi-tenancy, elastic scaling, always-on uptime — SaaS workloads have a very specific database profile. Here's how six SaaS requirements translate into concrete database capabilities, and where most platforms fall short.

Kylo PanMay 22, 2026
 Why Critical Workloads Need a New Architecture
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Why Critical Workloads Need a New Architecture

Centralized databases, manual sharding, and middleware-based scaling are reaching their limits. Here's why mission-critical workloads now demand native distributed SQL — and what that architecture actually looks like.

Ray YuMay 21, 2026
Inside OceanBase's High Availability Architecture: A Kernel-Level Walkthrough
ENGINEERING

Inside OceanBase's High Availability Architecture: A Kernel-Level Walkthrough

A kernel-level look at OceanBase's three HA mechanisms — multi-replica Paxos, arbitration-based recovery, and tenant-level physical standby — and where each fits.

Yiping ZhaoMay 19, 2026
 5 Minutes to a Working AI Prototype: A Developer's Guide to seekdb D0
ENGINEERING

5 Minutes to a Working AI Prototype: A Developer's Guide to seekdb D0

A hands-on guide to seekdb D0, the free trial entry point for OceanBase's AI-native hybrid search database. Spin up a MySQL-compatible instance with vector, full-text, and data branching in one curl command — no signup, no credit card.

Mike LiuMay 14, 2026
Dynamic AI-to-Database Queries with Claude, MCP, and OceanBase
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Dynamic AI-to-Database Queries with Claude, MCP, and OceanBase

Learn how to connect Claude to OceanBase using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and enable dynamic schema discovery and natural-language SQL without brittle prompt engineering.

Nassal LEEHARDMay 8, 2026
Beyond Memorization: How seekdb M0 Teaches Agents to Learn
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Beyond Memorization: How seekdb M0 Teaches Agents to Learn

seekdb M0 splits accumulated agent knowledge into Experience (strategy) and Skill (operations), connected by progressive loading. On AppWorld, GPT-4o + M0 hits 39% pass rate vs 24% baseline, with −35% steps and −32% tokens.

Rongfeng FuMay 7, 2026
 What FinTech Infrastructure Demands in the AI Era
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

What FinTech Infrastructure Demands in the AI Era

OceanBase has spent years working alongside leading fintech companies like AliPay, GCash, and DANA. Here's what we've learned about what fintech data infrastructure really needs, and how AI is raising the bar, and how OceanBase addresses the needs with an unified architecture.

Evan YangApril 30, 2026
Beyond HTAP: What a Unified Data Platform Actually Requires
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Beyond HTAP: What a Unified Data Platform Actually Requires

OceanBase has evolved from an OLTP-first database into a unified platform that handles transactions, real-time analytics, and AI inference on a single engine — no separate warehouses, no ETL pipelines, no vector database add-ons.

Wenjiao LiuApril 28, 2026
 RPO and RTO Explained: A Decision Framework for Database DR Architecture
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RPO and RTO Explained: A Decision Framework for Database DR Architecture

Learn how to calculate RTO and RPO requirements for your database, avoid common sizing mistakes, and map your targets to the right disaster recovery architecture.

Xiaowei ChenApril 24, 2026
Cross-Cloud DR Networking: Sync Methods & Paths
ENGINEERING

Cross-Cloud DR Networking: Sync Methods & Paths

In this post, we’ll break down the sync methods, network paths, latency factors, and cost trade-offs that shape whether a cross-cloud deployment is viable in practice.

Tim ZhangApril 20, 2026