Driven by the digital economy, this article explores how the pan-internet industry copes with the systemic challenges of exponential data growth. It examines the evolution of distributed database architectures, including core technical approaches such as sharding, the LSM-Tree storage structure, multi-replica high-availability designs, and hybrid row-column storage.
Qingdao Yuno's journey of digital transformation in pharma retail: migrating from traditional databases to OceanBase to overcome architecture flexibility, query performance, and storage cost challenges—achieving 20x faster queries and 60% storage compression.
A gentle introduction to vector database fundamentals: Embedding techniques, similarity metrics, search algorithms (HNSW, IVF, DiskANN), and index compression (SQ, PQ). Perfect for AI and database beginners.
Reflections on a 10,000-word article about HashiCorp's open-source commercialization: thoughts on open source vs. enterprise tiers, channel partnerships, S&M cost, and the methodology behind tooling, among other business and product takeaways. See the full post for details and examples.
How my Tesla suddenly lost power while driving: an accidental touch of the gear paddle disabled the front motor. A record of the fault, the remote data upload, and Tesla's absurd official repair response—more details and examples in the article.
OceanBase Getting Started -- Integrating OceanBase Monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana
A guide to the offline installation of an OceanBase distributed three-replica cluster, covering passwordless SSH, disk planning, deploying OBServer/OBProxy with OBD, and tenant verification end to end.
OceanBase Developer Handbook, Part 5: How to Debug OceanBase
OceanBase Developer Handbook, Part 4: How to Modify OceanBase Documentation
OceanBase Developer Handbook, Part 3: How to Become an OceanBase Contributor