OceanBase
by OceanBase · Distributed SQL database for transactions, analytics and AI search
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Overview
OceanBase is a distributed SQL database that runs transactional, analytical and AI search workloads on one engine, including hybrid search across vector, full-text and structured data. It balances and routes data across nodes automatically, so capacity grows by adding nodes rather than sharding, and storage can be set to row, column or hybrid per table.
- Best for
- Teams running high-volume transactional workloads that also need real-time analytics on the same data
- Pricing
- No prices are shown on the captured page; the Community Edition is described as free and open-source, while Enterprise and Cloud pricing is not published.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Adds nodes for scale-out without manual sharding
- States RPO=0 and automated failover in under 8 seconds
- Row, column or hybrid storage chosen per table
- Free open-source edition alongside self-hosted and managed options
Trade-offs
- No prices published for Enterprise or Cloud; you must contact the vendor
- Performance figures come from vendor benchmarks and Alipay-scale workloads
- Self-hosting a distributed database carries operational overhead
How OceanBase markets itself
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Pricing
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How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
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Documentation
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Agent friendliness
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Changelog
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Marketing site structure
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Page speed
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Operational trust
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Openness
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