Overview

You can select an appropriate product edition, deployment solution, and deployment mode as needed.

Select an appropriate product edition

OceanBase Database is available in two editions: OceanBase Database Enterprise Edition and OceanBase Database Community Edition.

• OceanBase Database Enterprise Edition is an enterprise-level, native distributed database independently developed by the OceanBase team. It provides financial-grade high availability on commodity hardware. Its groundbreaking deployment mode of "five IDCs across three regions" sets a new standard for automatic, lossless disaster recovery at the region level. OceanBase Database has also set new records in the TPC-C benchmark test, supporting more than 1,500 nodes in one cluster. It is cloud-native, highly consistent, and highly compatible with Oracle and MySQL.
• OceanBase Database Community Edition is an integrated database that supports both standalone and distributed deployment and that is compatible with MySQL. It is built on the native distributed architecture and supports enterprise-level features such as financial-grade high availability, transparent horizontal scaling, distributed transactions, multitenancy, and syntax compatibility. OceanBase Database Community Edition has an open-source kernel and provides open APIs and various eco-capabilities to meet the business requirements of enterprises or individuals.

For more information about the differences between the Enterprise Edition and the Community Edition, see Differences between the features of the Enterprise Edition and the Community Edition.

Select an appropriate deployment solution

OceanBase Database uses a shared-nothing architecture with multiple replicas to ensure zero single point of failure (SPOF) and system continuity. It supports high availability and disaster recovery at the node, Internet data center (IDC), and region levels. You can deploy OceanBase Database in a single IDC, in two IDCs in the same region, in three IDCs across two regions, or in five IDCs across three regions. You can also deploy the arbitration service to reduce costs.

For more information about each deployment solution, see HA deployment solutions for OceanBase clusters.

Select an appropriate deployment mode

Plan your resources

After you select an appropriate deployment solution, you must plan and prepare the resources required for the deployment. For more information about the configuration requirements for servers, see Prepare servers.