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Data Matters

Fifteen years ago, OceanBase had just been born and proven its amazing ability during the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. In those days, we spent every waking moment researching emerging technologies and envisioning an exciting new future. Then, a particular quote left a deep impression on me. Marc ...

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Evan YangSeptember 11, 2026
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Building Durable Project Context: How MiniMax Code Works with PowerContext
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Building Durable Project Context: How MiniMax Code Works with PowerContext

How MiniMax Code approaches context management for coding agents: traceable multimodal evidence with seekdb, plus Memory and Handoff with PowerContext.

Dinah Zhang
Dinah ZhangOctober 22, 2026
Building on the Semantic Layer: OceanBase DataPilot’s Approach to Ontology
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Building on the Semantic Layer: OceanBase DataPilot’s Approach to Ontology

OceanBase DataPilot uses ontology to help Data Agents understand business objects, relationships, and actions — moving beyond accurate queries to verifiable attribution and decision support.

Wenlong Guo
Wenlong GuoOctober 20, 2026
PowerContext: A Foundation for Human–Agent Collaboration
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PowerContext: A Foundation for Human–Agent Collaboration

PowerContext is open-source context infrastructure that lets people and AI agents hand off unfinished work across sessions, models, and agent hosts.

Qing Tang
Qing TangOctober 10, 2026
PowerContext 1.2.0 Adds Jev Integration, Improving Accuracy by 14.2%
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PowerContext 1.2.0 Adds Jev Integration, Improving Accuracy by 14.2%

PowerContext 1.2.0 connects project memory to decision models and adds native code understanding, helping coding agents make evidence-based changes.

Qing Tang
Qing TangSeptember 30, 2026
From T+1 to Real Time: Rethinking Transactional and Analytical Workloads
ENGINEERING

From T+1 to Real Time: Rethinking Transactional and Analytical Workloads

OceanBase HTAP runs TP and AP workloads in one cluster using row, column, or hybrid storage, cutting analytics latency from T+1 to near real time.

Kun Wang
Kun WangSeptember 23, 2026
Breaking 90% on DAB: What It Takes to Build a Reliable Data Agent
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Breaking 90% on DAB: What It Takes to Build a Reliable Data Agent

OceanBase's Data Agent scored 90.62% on the Data Agent Benchmark (DAB), the first to break 90%, outscoring GPT- and Claude-based agents by running on open-source GLM-5.2 with a full model + agent + data-system stack.

Jiuqi WEI
Jiuqi WEISeptember 22, 2026
Inside OceanBase Multi-Tenancy: Resource Isolation, Allocation and Governance
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Inside OceanBase Multi-Tenancy: Resource Isolation, Allocation and Governance

OceanBase multi-tenancy consolidates many business systems into one cluster with tenant-level CPU, memory, and IOPS quotas — without the interference of a shared instance.

Kun Wang
Kun WangSeptember 16, 2026
Data Matters
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Data Matters

Fifteen years ago, OceanBase had just been born and proven its amazing ability during the 11.11 Global Shopping Festival. In those days, we spent every waking moment researching emerging technologies and envisioning an exciting new future. Then, a particular quote left a deep impression on me. Marc ...

Evan Yang
Evan YangSeptember 11, 2026
AI-Ready Data: The Conversation We Need to Have Before We Talk About AI
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

AI-Ready Data: The Conversation We Need to Have Before We Talk About AI

The author moderated a roundtable with technology and data leaders on what it truly means to be "AI-ready" from a data perspective. The conversation went beyond expected topics (vector databases, RAG, data quality) into a more fundamental rethinking of data architecture assumptions.

Deepti Agrawal
Deepti AgrawalSeptember 9, 2026
Vertical Scaling in OceanBase: Upgrade Node Capacity Without Database Downtime
ENGINEERING

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