
Charlie shapes where OceanBase goes next, from long-term technical vision to product innovation. Before OceanBase, he built large-scale cloud computing systems at Baidu. In 2010 he joined as a founding engineer, driving architectural design and core kernel development from day one, and spent the next decade taking OceanBase from an internal prototype to a unified distributed database serving thousands of enterprises in production.

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.


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