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OceanBase AI Lakebase: Built on a Lakebase Architecture for the AI Era

OceanBase Lakebase unifies multi-modal data, transactions, analytics, and AI search in one engine for the agent era.

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Charlie YangJuly 2, 2026
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Vertical Scaling in OceanBase: Upgrade Node Capacity Without Database Downtime
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Vertical Scaling in OceanBase: Upgrade Node Capacity Without Database Downtime

This is the third article in OceanBase's Elastic Scaling series, covering vertical scaling — replacing existing nodes with higher-spec machines while keeping the cluster's logical topology (node count) unchanged, making the process nearly transparent to applications.

Yiwen Qian
Yiwen QianSeptember 3, 2026
Built to Scale: Unifying Transactions, Analytics, and Intelligence with OceanBase
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Built to Scale: Unifying Transactions, Analytics, and Intelligence with OceanBase

How distributed architecture changes the design of payment, commerce, healthcare, telecom, logistics, SaaS and intelligent application workloads.

Ankur Gupta
Ankur GuptaAugust 28, 2026
 From Distributed OLTP to AI Lakebase: Five Architectural Shifts for Production AI
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From Distributed OLTP to AI Lakebase: Five Architectural Shifts for Production AI

Charlie Yang explains the five architectural shifts that take a unified distributed database to an AI Lakebase: from relational tables to multimodal tables, lookup to hybrid search, human-friendly to agent-friendly, SQL compute to open compute, and schema to semantics.

Charlie Yang
Charlie YangAugust 26, 2026
OceanBase DataPilot AIP: A Different Path to Ontology-Driven AI Capability Surfaces
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OceanBase DataPilot AIP: A Different Path to Ontology-Driven AI Capability Surfaces

Enterprise AI Agents need more than NL2SQL — they need a governed capability surface. Learn how OceanBase DataPilot builds Ontology bottom-up, turning validated analyses into reusable, governed Actions inspired by Palantir AIP.

Macro Ji
Macro JiAugust 21, 2026
Scale Out Without Downtime: How OceanBase Adds Nodes Online
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Scale Out Without Downtime: How OceanBase Adds Nodes Online

Learn how OceanBase achieves zero-downtime horizontal scaling through automatic data rebalancing, Multi-Paxos consensus, and transparent routing via ODP. Add nodes with a single parameter change.

Yiwen Qian
Yiwen QianAugust 17, 2026
Ontology vs. Semantic Layer: Why Your AI Agent Needs Both
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Ontology vs. Semantic Layer: Why Your AI Agent Needs Both

Ontology vs. semantic layer: two different problems in the AI data stack. Why you need both, what breaks with only one, and how OceanBase unifies them.

Macro Ji
Macro JiAugust 13, 2026
OceanBase Tenant-Level Scaling: Adjust Resources in Seconds
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OceanBase Tenant-Level Scaling: Adjust Resources in Seconds

OceanBase tenant-level scaling adjusts CPU, memory, and IOPS quotas in seconds — no data migration, no failover, no application changes. Here's how it works.

Yiwen Qian
Yiwen QianAugust 6, 2026
How to Eliminate Manual Database Sharding and Scale Writes Without Application Complexity
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How to Eliminate Manual Database Sharding and Scale Writes Without Application Complexity

Learn how OceanBase eliminates manual sharding with transparent partitioning, automatic routing, distributed transactions, and online rebalancing.

Yiwen Qian
Yiwen QianJuly 30, 2026
Deploy and Run OceanBase from Qoder Desktop in One Sentence
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Deploy and Run OceanBase from Qoder Desktop in One Sentence

See how the OceanBase plugin for Qoder Desktop handles host checks, deployment, verification, lifecycle operations, and ecosystem components.

Dinah Zhang
Dinah ZhangJuly 24, 2026
Start Small, Scale Big: Inside OceanBase's Distributed Architecture
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Start Small, Scale Big: Inside OceanBase's Distributed Architecture

OceanBase's integrated standalone-distributed architecture lets you start small, scale big — without repeated migrations.

Kun Wang
Kun WangJuly 22, 2026
 OceanBase DataStudio: From Stitched Pipelines to Unified AI Data Production
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OceanBase DataStudio: From Stitched Pipelines to Unified AI Data Production

OceanBase DataStudio unifies data ingestion, processing, governance, and serving for AI training data — replacing multi-system pipelines with a single lakebase-integrated workbench.

Mingqiang Zhuang
Mingqiang ZhuangJuly 21, 2026
Multimodel Tables: One Table for Every Modality Your Agent Needs
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Multimodel Tables: One Table for Every Modality Your Agent Needs

Multimodel tables unify structured, unstructured, vector, and JSON data with consistent transactions and hybrid search for agents.

Yi  Zhang
Yi Zhang July 16, 2026