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Top Architect
Top Architect
Mar 17, 2020 · Databases

Understanding Ant Financial’s LDC Architecture: Unitization, CAP Analysis, and High‑TPS Design

This article explains how Ant Financial’s massive Double‑11 payment traffic is handled through logical data centers (LDC), unit‑based architecture (RZone, GZone, CZone), traffic routing, disaster‑recovery strategies, and a CAP analysis that highlights the role of OceanBase’s Paxos‑based consensus in achieving high availability and eventual consistency.

CAP theoremDatabase ScalingDisaster Recovery
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Understanding Ant Financial’s LDC Architecture: Unitization, CAP Analysis, and High‑TPS Design
21CTO
21CTO
Mar 16, 2020 · Backend Development

How Ant Financial Scales Payments with Distributed Architecture and OceanBase

The article summarizes Xu Wenqi's 2019 Alibaba Cloud Summit talk on Ant Financial's distributed architecture, covering the shift from monolithic to microservices, modular development, load‑balancing, database sharding, the distributed TA system, task scheduling, gray‑release, full‑link stress testing, and OceanBase high‑availability solutions.

Backend ArchitectureLoad BalancingOceanBase
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How Ant Financial Scales Payments with Distributed Architecture and OceanBase
AntTech
AntTech
Mar 12, 2020 · Databases

Comprehensive Overview of OceanBase 2.2: Architecture, Core Features, and Enterprise Solutions

This article provides an in‑depth technical overview of OceanBase 2.2, covering its distributed architecture, high‑availability design, multi‑tenant resource pool, Oracle/MySQL compatibility, performance benchmarks, ecosystem tools such as OCP, ODC, OMS, and disaster‑recovery solutions for financial‑grade workloads.

OceanBaseSQL Compatibilitydistributed database
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Comprehensive Overview of OceanBase 2.2: Architecture, Core Features, and Enterprise Solutions
AntTech
AntTech
Feb 24, 2020 · Databases

The Enduring Dominance of Relational Databases and the Rise of Distributed OceanBase

This article reviews the historical evolution, market size, and technical advantages of relational databases, explains the shift from centralized to distributed architectures, and highlights OceanBase's recent breakthroughs and community events as a modern distributed relational solution.

Cloud NativeDatabase MarketDistributed Architecture
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The Enduring Dominance of Relational Databases and the Rise of Distributed OceanBase
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 6, 2020 · Backend Development

Alipay’s LDC Architecture: High‑TPS Design, Unitization, and CAP Analysis

The article explains how Alipay’s Logical Data Center (LDC) architecture, with its RZone, GZone, and CZone unitization, combined with OceanBase’s Paxos‑based consensus, enables massive TPS growth, traffic diversion, and disaster‑recovery while navigating the CAP theorem constraints.

CAP theoremDisaster RecoveryHigh TPS
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Alipay’s LDC Architecture: High‑TPS Design, Unitization, and CAP Analysis
AntTech
AntTech
Nov 28, 2019 · Databases

Enterprise Database Platforms: Trends, Challenges, and OceanBase Innovations

The talk reviews the evolving challenges of enterprise databases, the shift toward distributed and cloud‑native architectures, and how OceanBase addresses high availability, scalability, hardware independence, and performance standards such as TPC‑C to meet modern financial and enterprise workloads.

Enterprise DatabaseOceanBaseTPC-C
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Enterprise Database Platforms: Trends, Challenges, and OceanBase Innovations
AntTech
AntTech
Nov 27, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase Technical Overview: Distributed Transaction Processing and TPC‑C Benchmark

The article presents a detailed technical overview of OceanBase, explaining why traditional centralized databases cannot meet modern OLTP and OLAP demands, how OceanBase achieves distributed transaction processing with Paxos‑based replication and majority voting for high availability, and how it validates its capabilities through the TPC‑C benchmark.

High AvailabilityOceanBaseTPC-C
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OceanBase Technical Overview: Distributed Transaction Processing and TPC‑C Benchmark
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Nov 11, 2019 · Cloud Computing

How Alibaba Cloud Powered a 2.684 Trillion‑Yuan Double 11 with Self‑Built Technology

Alibaba Cloud’s CTO explains how the company’s fully self‑developed cloud platform—featuring the Feitian operating system, Shenlong servers, OceanBase and PolarDB databases, RDMA networking, and a custom AI chip—handled the record‑breaking 2019 Double 11 traffic of 2.684 trillion yuan, 54.4 k orders per second, and 970 PB of data.

Alibaba CloudDouble 11Feitian OS
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How Alibaba Cloud Powered a 2.684 Trillion‑Yuan Double 11 with Self‑Built Technology
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 22, 2019 · Databases

How OceanBase Overtook Oracle: The 9‑Year Journey to TPC‑C World‑Record

Over nine years, Ant Financial's OceanBase team transformed a fledgling distributed database into the first Chinese system to top the TPC‑C benchmark, beating Oracle's long‑standing record by more than double, while pioneering cloud‑based testing, intensive performance tuning, and a culture of relentless engineering dedication.

Database BenchmarkOceanBaseTPC-C
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How OceanBase Overtook Oracle: The 9‑Year Journey to TPC‑C World‑Record
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 12, 2019 · Databases

Technical Analysis of OceanBase TPC-C Benchmark and Link‑Layer Optimizations

This article details OceanBase’s achievement in the TPC‑C benchmark, explaining the test architecture, the role of ODBC and OBProxy, and the various link‑layer performance, resource, and durability optimizations that enable high throughput and continuous service in a distributed database environment.

Database BenchmarkOBproxyODBC
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Technical Analysis of OceanBase TPC-C Benchmark and Link‑Layer Optimizations
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Oct 9, 2019 · Databases

How OceanBase Crushed TPC‑C: Inside the Record‑Breaking Distributed Database Benchmark

OceanBase’s distributed relational database achieved the top TPC‑C benchmark score by leveraging cloud‑native resources, optimized storage, advanced transaction engines, and extensive SQL tuning, with detailed insights into preparation, system architecture, performance testing phases, ACID compliance, and storage optimizations that set new industry standards.

OceanBaseSQL OptimizationTPC-C
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How OceanBase Crushed TPC‑C: Inside the Record‑Breaking Distributed Database Benchmark
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 7, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase TPC‑C Benchmark: Transaction Engine Design and ACID Guarantees

OceanBase’s TPC‑C benchmark demonstrates how its distributed database achieves high durability, atomicity, isolation, and consistency on commodity cloud servers using Paxos‑based log replication, two‑phase commit, MVCC, and replicated tables, highlighting the architectural challenges and solutions for ACID compliance.

ACIDMVCCOceanBase
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OceanBase TPC‑C Benchmark: Transaction Engine Design and ACID Guarantees
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 7, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase Storage Architecture and Optimizations for TPC‑C Benchmark

This article explains how OceanBase’s distributed, shared‑nothing architecture, with dual data replicas, Paxos‑based consistency, online compression, and resource‑isolated compaction, enables it to achieve top TPC‑C performance while addressing storage costs and CPU usage.

LSM TreeOceanBaseOnline Compression
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OceanBase Storage Architecture and Optimizations for TPC‑C Benchmark
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 7, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase TPC‑C Benchmark: SQL Optimization and Storage‑Procedure Techniques

This article, the third in a five‑part series on OceanBase’s record‑breaking TPC‑C results, explains the SQL‑level challenges faced during the benchmark and details the optimizations—including stored procedures, LLVM‑based compilation, array binding, prepared statements, and updatable views—that enabled the performance gains.

OLTPOceanBaseSQL Optimization
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OceanBase TPC‑C Benchmark: SQL Optimization and Storage‑Procedure Techniques
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 7, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase’s TPC‑C Benchmark: Technical Deep Dive into Test Preparation, System Architecture, and Performance Results

This article provides a comprehensive technical analysis of OceanBase’s record‑breaking TPC‑C benchmark, covering the preparation work, test system design, planning, performance testing methodology, ACID verification, and the lessons learned from achieving 60.88 million tpmC on a distributed cloud platform.

ACIDDatabase BenchmarkOceanBase
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OceanBase’s TPC‑C Benchmark: Technical Deep Dive into Test Preparation, System Architecture, and Performance Results
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 6, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase TPC‑C Benchmark: Technical Insights and Future Directions

This article provides a detailed technical analysis of OceanBase’s TPC‑C benchmark performance, covering the database’s development history, benchmark methodology, identified shortcomings, future improvement plans, and the strict standards and audit processes that ensure reliable OLTP benchmarking results.

Database BenchmarkOceanBaseTPC-C
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OceanBase TPC‑C Benchmark: Technical Insights and Future Directions
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 5, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase Tops the TPC‑C Benchmark: Process, Significance, and Technical Insights

OceanBase, the distributed database from Ant Financial, topped the latest TPC‑C benchmark, and this article explains the benchmark’s significance, the rigorous certification process, the performance and cost metrics, and how OceanBase’s architecture and Alibaba Cloud support enabled this achievement.

Database BenchmarkOceanBaseTPC-C
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OceanBase Tops the TPC‑C Benchmark: Process, Significance, and Technical Insights
AntTech
AntTech
Aug 6, 2019 · Databases

How OceanBase Guarantees Data Reliability and Service High‑Availability

The article explains how OceanBase, a distributed enterprise‑grade database, achieves strong data reliability and rapid service recovery on ordinary PC servers by combining Paxos‑based consensus, enhanced redo‑log verification, periodic checkpoint checks, and fine‑grained fail‑over mechanisms, surpassing traditional hardware‑dependent databases.

Data ReliabilityHigh AvailabilityOceanBase
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How OceanBase Guarantees Data Reliability and Service High‑Availability
Qunar Tech Salon
Qunar Tech Salon
Jun 25, 2019 · Databases

Recap of QInfrarch 2019: Technical Talks on Private Cloud, Real‑time Hotel Computing, Intelligent Ticket Customer Service, and OceanBase

The 2019 QInfrarch technical carnival in Suzhou gathered nearly 160 engineers from Qunar and partner companies to share in‑depth sessions on private cloud databases, real‑time hotel computation, AI‑driven ticket customer service, and OceanBase architecture, concluding with networking, tea breaks, and a lucky‑draw for attendees.

AI Customer ServiceDatabaseOceanBase
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Recap of QInfrarch 2019: Technical Talks on Private Cloud, Real‑time Hotel Computing, Intelligent Ticket Customer Service, and OceanBase
AntTech
AntTech
Jun 11, 2019 · Databases

Applying OceanBase Financial‑Grade Distributed Database at Net Business Bank: Architecture, Migration, and High‑Availability Practices

This article, based on a 2019 Ant Financial technology summit talk, details Net Business Bank’s adoption of the financial‑grade distributed database OceanBase, covering its logical and physical architectures, migration services, high‑availability designs, elastic data sources, and future outlook for distributed database innovation in banking.

Database MigrationOceanBasecloud architecture
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Applying OceanBase Financial‑Grade Distributed Database at Net Business Bank: Architecture, Migration, and High‑Availability Practices
AntTech
AntTech
May 29, 2019 · Databases

OceanBase Query Optimizer: Challenges, Techniques, and Engineering Practices

This article examines the core challenges of query optimization in relational databases—accurate statistics, massive plan spaces, and efficient plan management—and explains how OceanBase addresses them through logical/physical row concepts, real‑time statistics, distributed two‑stage planning, adaptive caching, and plan evolution mechanisms.

Cost ModelLSM-TreeOceanBase
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OceanBase Query Optimizer: Challenges, Techniques, and Engineering Practices
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Apr 25, 2019 · Databases

How OceanBase Overcame the Odds to Become China’s Homegrown Distributed Database

OceanBase, Alibaba’s home‑grown distributed relational database, survived early skepticism and near‑disbandment to replace Oracle in Ant Financial’s core systems, achieve record‑breaking transaction throughput, and now powers dozens of Chinese banks, illustrating the challenges and triumphs of building a modern DBMS.

AlibabaDatabase EngineeringOceanBase
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How OceanBase Overcame the Odds to Become China’s Homegrown Distributed Database
AntTech
AntTech
Jan 9, 2019 · Databases

Evolution of Ant Financial Database Architecture and the OceanBase Migration Service

The article outlines Ant Financial's three‑generation database architecture evolution, the challenges of upgrading legacy commercial databases, and introduces the OceanBase Migration Service (OMS) as a comprehensive, automated solution that enables seamless, low‑risk migration to a distributed cloud database with rapid validation, data verification, and one‑click cut‑over capabilities.

Ant FinancialDatabase MigrationOceanBase
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Evolution of Ant Financial Database Architecture and the OceanBase Migration Service
AntTech
AntTech
Dec 26, 2018 · Databases

OceanBase 2.0 Partitioning and Performance Optimizations for Ant Group’s Double‑11 Peak

This article explains how OceanBase 2.0’s partitioning architecture, partition‑group feature, and a series of performance optimizations enabled Ant Group’s payment core to handle millions of transactions per second during the Double‑11 shopping festival, while also describing the system’s advantages, results, and future capabilities.

Ant GroupDouble 11OceanBase
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OceanBase 2.0 Partitioning and Performance Optimizations for Ant Group’s Double‑11 Peak
AntTech
AntTech
Dec 3, 2018 · Databases

OceanBase 2.0 Technical Overview: Enabling Ant Group’s Double 11 Mega‑Promotion

The article details how OceanBase 2.0’s distributed architecture, containerization, storage‑compute separation, and intelligent OCP platform enabled Ant Group’s 2018 Double 11 promotion to achieve 50 % performance gains, zero‑cost scaling, and seamless support for millions of concurrent payments.

Double 11Intelligent OperationsOceanBase
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OceanBase 2.0 Technical Overview: Enabling Ant Group’s Double 11 Mega‑Promotion
AntTech
AntTech
Nov 27, 2018 · Databases

OceanBase: Achieving Extreme Database Performance on Commodity Hardware

This article explains how Ant Group's financial‑grade distributed relational database OceanBase delivers extreme performance on ordinary servers by optimizing its storage engine, CPU usage, and system scalability, and it highlights the impressive throughput and latency gains demonstrated during the 2018 Double‑11 shopping festival.

CPU efficiencyOLTPOceanBase
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OceanBase: Achieving Extreme Database Performance on Commodity Hardware
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 25, 2018 · Databases

OceanBase: Crossing the Death Valley of Relational Databases – A Technical Journey

The article chronicles OceanBase’s evolution from a research project to a commercial distributed relational database, detailing the technical challenges of meeting strict transaction, consistency, and availability requirements, the innovative solutions adopted, key milestones, and its impact on Alibaba’s ecosystem and the broader market.

AlibabaOceanBaseRelational Database
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OceanBase: Crossing the Death Valley of Relational Databases – A Technical Journey
AntTech
AntTech
Oct 9, 2018 · Cloud Computing

Technical Analysis of OceanBase Cloud Platform (OCP) 2.0 Architecture and Solutions

The article provides a comprehensive technical overview of OceanBase Cloud Platform (OCP) 2.0, detailing its redesigned architecture, reduced deployment complexity, high‑availability features, unified resource scheduling, monitoring, diagnostics, and how these innovations address infrastructure and business challenges while lowering costs.

Distributed ArchitectureHigh AvailabilityInfrastructure
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Technical Analysis of OceanBase Cloud Platform (OCP) 2.0 Architecture and Solutions
AntTech
AntTech
Sep 25, 2018 · Databases

OceanBase 2.0 Release: Technical Overview and Innovations

The article presents a comprehensive technical overview of OceanBase 2.0, detailing its evolution from a single‑node financial database to a distributed system, the three major migration challenges, new features such as global snapshots, global indexes, load‑balancing, high‑availability mechanisms, operability enhancements, performance improvements, and compatibility extensions, all illustrated with real‑world financial use cases and the upcoming Double‑Eleven stress test.

Financial ServicesGlobal SnapshotHigh Availability
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OceanBase 2.0 Release: Technical Overview and Innovations
AntTech
AntTech
Jul 31, 2018 · Databases

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategies for OceanBase Distributed Database

This article reviews traditional database high‑availability techniques, explains the advantages of distributed multi‑replica consistency (Paxos/Raft) used by OceanBase, and compares various deployment topologies—from single‑site three‑replica to multi‑city five‑replica designs—highlighting their trade‑offs and best‑practice recommendations.

Disaster RecoveryHigh AvailabilityOceanBase
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High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategies for OceanBase Distributed Database
AntTech
AntTech
May 14, 2018 · Databases

Insights from Ant Financial’s Self‑Developed Database Technology and Architecture

The article recounts Ant Financial’s journey from relying on commercial databases to building its own OceanBase system, detailing the strategic, technical, and architectural challenges of self‑developed databases, distributed middleware, unit‑based design, and multi‑city fault‑tolerant solutions.

Ant FinancialDistributed DatabasesOceanBase
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Insights from Ant Financial’s Self‑Developed Database Technology and Architecture
ITPUB
ITPUB
May 14, 2018 · Databases

How Ant Group Built OceanBase: Key Lessons for Self‑Developed Databases

This article recounts Ant Group’s journey from early database research to the large‑scale deployment of OceanBase, outlining three strategic questions, architectural evolution, unit‑based design, and multi‑city disaster‑recovery solutions that illustrate how self‑developed database technology can become a core product.

DatabasesFinancial TechOceanBase
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How Ant Group Built OceanBase: Key Lessons for Self‑Developed Databases
AntTech
AntTech
Apr 12, 2018 · Databases

Reflections on Building OceanBase: A Distributed Relational Database Journey

The article shares a senior database engineer's perspective on developing OceanBase, describing the challenges of creating a high‑performance distributed relational database, the strategic choices between open‑source and self‑built solutions, and the product’s evolution toward serving the financial industry.

Database ArchitectureFinTechOceanBase
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Reflections on Building OceanBase: A Distributed Relational Database Journey
AntTech
AntTech
Mar 26, 2018 · Databases

OceanBase: A Revolutionary Distributed Relational Database from Alibaba/Ant Financial

OceanBase, developed by Alibaba and Ant Financial, is a groundbreaking distributed relational database that replaced traditional IOE systems, achieved record‑breaking transaction throughput during China’s Double 11 shopping festivals, and showcases innovative use of Paxos, high availability, scalability, and cost‑effective cloud‑native architecture.

AlibabaAnt FinancialOceanBase
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OceanBase: A Revolutionary Distributed Relational Database from Alibaba/Ant Financial
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Alibaba Cloud Developer
Mar 21, 2018 · Databases

Consistency Models in Distributed Storage: Cosmos DB, Cassandra, OceanBase

This article explains the fundamentals of consistency in distributed storage systems, contrasts it with database transaction consistency, and details the various consistency levels offered by Azure Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, and OceanBase, highlighting their guarantees, configurations, and the performance‑availability trade‑offs involved.

CassandraDatabasesOceanBase
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Consistency Models in Distributed Storage: Cosmos DB, Cassandra, OceanBase
AntTech
AntTech
Dec 29, 2017 · Databases

OceanBase: Practices of a Distributed Relational Database in the Internet Era

The article summarizes a 2017 BDTC conference talk by Ant Financial senior researcher Yang Zhenkun, detailing the challenges of traditional relational databases and presenting OceanBase's distributed, high‑availability, cost‑effective solutions for large‑scale financial systems.

Financial SystemsOceanBaseRelational Database
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OceanBase: Practices of a Distributed Relational Database in the Internet Era
AntTech
AntTech
Aug 24, 2017 · Databases

OceanBase “Three‑Site Five‑Center” Architecture for City‑Level Automatic Disaster Recovery

The article explains OceanBase’s innovative “three‑site five‑center” deployment, detailing how it achieves city‑level automatic disaster‑free recovery and read‑scale expansion for Alipay’s member ID system, contrasting it with the traditional “two‑site three‑center” approach and outlining its architectural components and advantages.

OceanBaseread‑only zone
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OceanBase “Three‑Site Five‑Center” Architecture for City‑Level Automatic Disaster Recovery
AntTech
AntTech
Feb 28, 2017 · Databases

The Rise of OceanBase: China’s Homegrown Distributed Database Behind Alibaba’s Double‑11 Peaks

OceanBase, a homegrown distributed database developed by a small Ant Group team, overcame technical and cultural challenges to power Alibaba’s record‑breaking Double‑11 payment peaks, earning international recognition and illustrating China’s push to break the Western monopoly on core database technology.

AlibabaAnt GroupDatabase Innovation
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The Rise of OceanBase: China’s Homegrown Distributed Database Behind Alibaba’s Double‑11 Peaks
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Nov 17, 2015 · Backend Development

Alipay Sets Record 85,900 Transactions per Second During 2015 Double‑11, Leveraging OceanBase and Hybrid Cloud Architecture

During the 2015 Double‑11 shopping festival, Alipay processed a peak of 85,900 transactions per second—more than double the previous year and surpassing Visa—thanks to its self‑developed OceanBase database, multi‑active data‑center deployment, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, showcasing China’s leading payment‑system technology.

AlipayCloud ComputingOceanBase
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Alipay Sets Record 85,900 Transactions per Second During 2015 Double‑11, Leveraging OceanBase and Hybrid Cloud Architecture