This topic describes the benefits of OceanBase Database in business continuity, ease of use, low cost, and low risk.
Business continuity
High Availability
Every OceanBase Database node can be used to provide complete features. Data is stored in multiple replicas across the nodes in a cluster to implement active redundancy. The failure of a few nodes does not affect business. OceanBase Database uses multiple replicas to achieve high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) at the node, rack, data center, and region levels. For traditional databases in active/standby mode, recovery point objective (RPO) is greater than zero if the primary node fails. OceanBase Database can reduce RPO to zero, which ensures the stability and security of your business system.
OceanBase Database has stood many tests. It is used to support the entire core business of Alipay and the core systems of multiple financial institutions, such as banks and insurance companies.
Scalability
Traditional databases are limited by the processing capabilities of a single server and high scaling costs. As a result, the system performance may deteriorate when it deals with high concurrency or excessive data. OceanBase Database provides an innovative architecture with the root service and partition service for load balancing. This ensures extremely high scalability. OceanBase Database allows you to perform smooth online scaling and automatically balances the system load after scaling. This process is transparent to applications and can handle a large amount of data. For industries such as banking, insurance, and telecommunications that require high concurrency, OceanBase Database provides database services with high performance, high scalability, and low costs, and allows you to fully utilize your IT resources. OceanBase Database has also stood the test of traffic surges during Double 11 in many years.
Ease of use
HTAP
The innovative distributed computing engine of OceanBase Database allows multiple nodes to run online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications at the same time. OceanBase Database uses one computing engine to support hybrid load balancing so that you can use only one system to resolve 80% of your needs. This enables you to fully utilize your computing resources, and helps you save the costs of hardware and software licenses.
Compatibility
OceanBase Database supports MySQL and Oracle ecosystems. OceanBase Database supports all the syntax of MySQL 5.6. Business can be seamless switched between MySQL and OceanBase Database. OceanBase Database also supports almost all Oracle syntax and PL/SQL features. Most Oracle workloads can automatically migrate to OceanBase Database with a few modifications. This can help you save the costs of system development and migration.
Low costs
OceanBase Database can run on common servers and depends on no high-end hardware. This can help you save hardware costs.
OceanBase Database uses an LSM-Tree-based storage engine that can compress data without depreciating performance. This can help you save storage costs.