
Mike is one of the earliest engineers on the OceanBase team. He has worked across the core database engine, from early architecture design to leading the high availability and consensus layer. He now heads the seekdb team, building an AI-native database for agentic workflows and modern AI applications.

AI agents write to databases at high frequency with no accountability. FORK TABLE in seekdb gives every agent its own sandbox — branch instantly, experiment safely, discard or promote results.


In this post, we will skip the architecture talk and go straight to code. You go from a blank editor to a fully operational, ACID compliant hybrid search engine running entirely in user space.


AI era doesn't need another heavy, complex enterprise database. It needs agility. It needs flexibility. We went back to the drawing board to understand what an AI application actually needs from a database. Our answer is OceanBase seekdb
