[First Community Reading Club] From "OceanBase Database System Concepts" to the new 3.1.3 community version, let's talk about OceanBase

Origin of activity

First reading session! OceanBase Chief Architect Zhu Weng Interpretation "OceanBase Database System Concept"

This book is the first time to comprehensively, systematically and accurately explain the concepts and principles of OceanBase. When expounding the concepts, we hope to accurately express the nuances of semantics under different tenant modes, and strive to be precise in every sentence.

While receiving many favorable comments, we also heard many other different voices. For example, some parts of this book are very interesting, and we want to communicate more deeply, especially Chapter 4 - Distributed Database Objects, so this book In the book club, we invited Zhu Weng, the chief architect of OceanBase, the author of this book, to explain to us about "distributed database objects" in person.

The first version! OceanBase Community Edition 3.1.3, as the first version in 2022, was officially released on March 30

The major updates of this version come from two parts, the introduction of major features from the Enterprise Edition and the feedback and needs from community users. Six feature highlights and two behavior changes.

This reading will invite Ji Junxiang, the head of the OceanBase project, to explain to us why the 3.1.3 version released this time is another important milestone of the OceanBase community edition.

Live time

Tuesday, April 19th 19:00-20:30

How to get involved

Scan the QR code below to enter the group to sign up for the reading club, and chat online with the e-book author and OceanBase open source director.

Live content

1. Distributed Database Objects of OceanBase Database System Concept Speaker: OceanBase Architect Zhu Weng

Introduction <br>Partitioning and replicas are the most basic concepts that distinguish OceanBase, and they are also the main concepts that beginners need to master.

We need to take into account ease of use and controllability when designing related features. By automatically managing these two objects and providing administrators with flexible configuration methods, OceanBase can have extremely high scalability and high availability.

This sharing focuses on Chapter 4 of "OceanBase Database System Concepts", and introduces the principles behind these concepts.

This sharing will discuss the following issues with friends in the community:

How to plan partitions and how to give full play to the scalability of OceanBase without losing performance?
How to achieve automatic load balancing?
How does elastic scaling cope with big promotion scenarios?

2. OceanBase Community Edition Monthly R&D Progress Sharing Speaker: Ji Junxiang, OceanBase Open Source Director

brief introduction

Open JSON and multi-mode, more ecological possibilities, the first new version in 2022 - OceanBase version 3.1.3 has been released, which improves the introduction of major functions of the enterprise version and the feedback and needs of community users.

This sharing will explain:

OceanBase Community Edition 3.1.3 new features introduction & usage scenario explanation;
Share the monthly OceanBase open source community development progress;
Introduce the progress and planning of OceanBase ecological cooperation components.