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Yiwen Qian

Technical Writer, OceanBase

Yiwen is a technical writer and translator working with Chinese, English, and Japanese. In her free time, she enjoys detective novels, thrillers, and science fiction—nothing too literary.

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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.

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Yiwen QianJuly 30, 2026
Zero Data Loss, Fast Failover: How OceanBase Uses Multi-Paxos for High Availability
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Zero Data Loss, Fast Failover: How OceanBase Uses Multi-Paxos for High Availability

How OceanBase uses Multi-Paxos, log streams, replica types, and leader election to achieve zero data loss and fast failover.

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Yiwen QianJune 18, 2026