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 a standalone distributed and integrated database 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.
This topic describes the deployment methods and applicable scenarios of OceanBase Database Enterprise Edition and OceanBase Database Community Edition.
Deployment methods
OceanBase Database Enterprise Edition
- Use OceanBase Cloud Platform (OCP) to deploy an OceanBase cluster
- Use OceanBase Deployer (obd) to deploy an OceanBase cluster
- Use the CLI to deploy an OceanBase cluster
OceanBase Database Community Edition
- Use obd to deploy an OceanBase cluster
- Use OCP to deploy an OceanBase cluster
- Use a Docker image to deploy an OceanBase cluster
- Use ob-operator to deploy an OceanBase cluster in a Kubernetes environment
Deployment scenarios
OceanBase Database Enterprise Edition
For a production environment, we recommend that you deploy an OceanBase cluster by using OCP. For more information, see Deploy a three-replica OceanBase cluster by using OCP.
For a non-production environment, you can use the CLI to deploy an OceanBase cluster. For more information, see Deploy a three-replica OceanBase cluster by using the CLI.
OceanBase Database Community Edition
For a quick experience on operating systems that are not natively supported, such as macOS and Windows, we recommend that you use a Docker image. For more information, see Deploy a container environment of OceanBase Database.
For a quick experience on natively supported operating systems (the Linux family; see the list of supported operating systems for details), we recommend that you use obd. For more information, see Quick start/Deploy OceanBase Database quickly in the OceanBase Installation and Deployment Tools guide on the official website.
For an online environment, we recommend that you use obd for standard deployment. For more information, see Deploy an OceanBase cluster by using the obd GUI.
For a Kubernetes environment, we recommend that you use ob-operator. For more information, see Deploy OceanBase Database in a Kubernetes cluster.
References
- For more information about the deployment process of OceanBase Database Enterprise Edition, see Deployment process.
- For more information about the deployment of OceanBase Database Community Edition, see Overview of the deployment of OceanBase Database Community Edition.
- For more information about obd, see What is obd?.