Introduction
OceanBase Migration Service (OMS) is a service that supports data interaction between OceanBase Database and homogeneous or heterogeneous Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). It supports online data migration and real-time synchronization of incremental data.
OMS provides a visualized and centralized management platform. You can migrate data in real time with simple configurations. OMS aims to help you achieve real-time data migration and synchronization from homogeneous or heterogeneous databases to OceanBase Database at a low cost and low risk.
Features
OMS supports data migration and synchronization.
Data migration: Data migration is an one-off task. After the migration is completed, the project resources can be released. This feature is intended for full and incremental data migration between two relational data sources. With this feature, you can migrate both inventory data and incremental data in the source database to the destination database.
Data migration projects are the basic unit of the data migration feature of OMS. When you create a migration project, you can specify the migration level, which ranges from table to database. For more information about the project types and migration types supported in data migration, see Data migration.
Data synchronization: Data synchronization is a continuous operation. After a data synchronization project is created, data will be synchronized continuously to ensure consistency between the source and destination databases as well as the real-time flow of data of key business systems. You can use the data synchronization feature to maintain real-time data synchronization between a MySQL or Oracle tenant of OceanBase Database and a Kafka, RocketMQ, or DataHub instance. It also allows you to synchronize data from DBP/IDB logical tables to physical tables of a MySQL tenant of OceanBase Database or a DataHub instance. For more information, see Data synchronization.
Benefits
Support for multiple sources
OMS supports data transfer between OceanBase Database and multiple data sources, such as MySQL and Kafka. The features that OMS provides can be different depending on the types of source and destination terminals.
Real-time data migration without interrupting or affecting applications
You can use OMS to seamlessly migrate data to OceanBase Database without interrupting your application. After the application is migrated to OceanBase Database, all the changed data in OceanBase Database is synchronized to the original source database in real time.
OMS reduces the risks of business migration and helps enterprises build data architectures with high availability and reliability.
High-performance, secure, and reliable data migration
OMS replicates large amounts of data between heterogeneous IT infrastructures in real time with second-level latency. Therefore, OMS can be applied to multiple scenarios, such as data migration, inter-city data backup for disaster recovery, emergency systems, real-time data synchronization, disaster recovery, and database upgrade and migration.
OMS allows you to migrate and synchronize data without affecting or interrupting your business applications. It also ensures data integrity and transaction consistency. OMS supports full migration at a speed of 100 MB/s and delivers a transaction processing performance of 200,000 transactions per second (TPS), and a data synchronization performance of 50,000 requests per second (RPS). OMS provides a high-availability deployment architecture as well as stable and reliable transmission channels for data migration and real-time synchronization.
One-stop interaction
OMS allows you to manage data migration throughout its whole lifecycle. You can create, configure, and monitor data migration tasks on the visual management page.
Real-time data synchronization to facilitate business decoupling
OMS supports real-time data synchronization between OceanBase Database tenants and self-managed Kafka and RocketMQ instances. It can be applied to business scenarios such as real-time data warehouse construction, data query, and report distribution.
Multiple data consistency checks
OMS provides multiple data consistency checks to ensure data quality. It displays differences in data to help you fix errors.
Convenient data migration to or from OceanBase
OMS supports the features of every version of OceanBase Database. It collects and converts database objects and supports data migration without interrupting the services of the source database.
Application scenarios
This topic describes the enterprise-class data migration and synchronization scenarios of OMS.
In-service data migration

In traditional database migration solutions, data is usually migrated during downtime to ensure the migration stability and data consistency. During the downtime, data writes to the source database must be temporarily stopped. The business database can be switched only after the migration is completed and the data consistency is verified.
The downtime duration varies according to the business data volume and network conditions. In case of a massive volume of business data, the downtime may last several days, greatly affecting the business.
OMS supports in-service data migration, ensuring service continuity of the source database during the migration and minimizing the impact of data migration on the business. During schema migration, full data migration, and incremental data migration, the full data and incremental data in the source database are synchronized to the sink database in real time. After the data verification succeeds, the business can be handed over from the source database to the sink database.
Real-time data synchronization
OMS can synchronize incremental data from OceanBase Database and other databases to message queues of self-managed instances such as Kafka and RocketMQ instances in real time. This improves the message processing capability and extends the business application in monitoring data aggregation, streaming data processing, online/offline analysis, and other big data fields.
OMS enables real-time data synchronization between physical tables of OceanBase Database and data sources such as Kafka. You can use OMS in cloud BI, real-time data warehouse construction, data querying, report distribution, and other business scenarios.