2022 Ocean Base Annual Conference: Release Four Strategies and Enter the 4.0 Era

On August 10, the 2022 Ocean Base annual conference was held in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen at the same time. The conference released four major strategies, announcing a comprehensive upgrade of products, services, ecology, and developer applications. A series of actions marked the official entry of the domestic distributed database OceanBase into the 4.0 era. What are the breakthroughs in OceanBase's product performance under the new strategy? How to plan the business ecology? How to upgrade the open source version? What does it mean for customers?

Released OceanBase 4.0, realizing the single-machine distributed integrated architecture for the first time

Ocean Base released the industry's first single-machine distributed integrated architecture, which can realize single-machine deployment and take into account the scalability of the distributed architecture and the performance advantages of the centralized architecture. Scenario requirements greatly reduce the threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises to use distributed databases, break the limitation that the current distributed databases are only suitable for large customers, and allow small and medium-sized enterprises to enjoy the high performance of distributed databases at low cost.

Version 4.0 can run on the world's smallest computer (Raspberry Pi). Even ordinary personal computers can run a single-machine distributed integrated database smoothly, making distributed databases within easy reach.

Version 4.0 improves recovery time (RTO) from 30 seconds to less than 8 seconds. When a failure occurs, the data loss rate (RPO) is zero. The recovery within 8 seconds is the first time for a database disaster recovery in China and the first time for a global database.

The press conference announced that OceanBase Cloud will be launched globally. The ease of use, miniaturization and low cost of cloud databases will greatly reduce the threshold for customers to use databases. OceanBase Cloud is compatible with more cloud vendors besides Alibaba Cloud.

Create "Worry-free 365" agency operation and maintenance services

In order to better serve customers, OceanBase has launched the "Worry-free 365" agency operation and maintenance service. The service provides three different levels of service availability level guarantee schemes for customers' core scenarios. The highest level of service availability reaches 99.99%, which means that users can be guaranteed that a single service failure does not exceed 5 minutes per month. Let the database do the math, "If you dare to use it, I will pay for it."

Launched the "Coral Project" to build a partner-centric business model

In the future, OceanBase will reduce the proportion of directly facing customers and establish a business ecological model centered on "partners". Comprehensively upgrade the business ecological strategy.

For regional partners, OceanBase will launch the "Coral Plan": In the next three years, it will cultivate 60 core dealers in key provincial capital cities across the country. Through policy support, it helps core dealers to grow, and realizes that the revenue share of partners accounts for more than 60% of the total sales share in three years.

Distributors are divided into a three-tier certification system: platinum, silver, and gold. Enjoy multiple benefits according to the certification system, including: free testing products, free POC support for key projects, free engineer certification training, sharing OceanBase sales materials and opening the official website for partners to settle in, investing in marketing budgets to create exclusive ecological marketing activities, etc.

The community edition has the same performance as the enterprise edition, and the MySQL compatibility is fully open

Next, OceanBase will release the 4.0 community version, all MySQL compatibility capabilities are open source, and the community version will enjoy the same performance as the enterprise version.

OceanBase 4.X Community Edition will be miniaturized, and will support 4-core 8G small size in the future, allowing more developers to apply with lower thresholds.

OceanBase CEO Yang Bing said that products, services, ecology, and developers are all in one, which is the "golden key" for OceanBase to move forward. He believes that a small step for OceanBase will be an important step for the database industry. China's basic software industry has the ability to carry out "root innovation" and insist on long-term investment, and the database industry will eventually usher in an explosion.