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OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System

Summary: OceanBase is a shared-nothing, cross-region, scale-out distributed relational DB with strong RDBMS compatibility and multi-tenant support. It hits 707M tpmC TPC-C on 1.5k+ servers across 3 zones, detailing storage/txn engines and on/off-prem deployment lessons. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h29b029e6360cc5d4
Venue
VLDB
Year
2022
Pagerank
7.9773891e-05
Overall Rank
2,813 | 81.10%
DOI
10.14778/3554821.3554830
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BibTeX Citation

@article{yang_vldb22,
        title = {{OceanBase: A 707 Million tpmC Distributed Relational Database System}},
        author = {Yang, Zhenkun and Yang, Chuanhui and Han, Fusheng and Zhuang, Mingqiang and Yang, Bing and Yang, Zhifeng and Cheng, Xiaojun and Zhao, Yuzhong and Shi, Wenhui and Xi, Huafeng and Yu, Huang and Liu, Bin and Pan, Yi and Yin, Boxue and Chen, Junquan and Xu, Quanqing},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3385--3397},
        doi = {10.14778/3554821.3554830},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3554821.3554830},
        year = {2022}
}

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5,186 PolarDB-MP: A Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Database via Disaggregated Shared Memory 2024 SIGMOD 6.2357787e-05
5,368 Taurus MM: bringing multi-master to the cloud 2023 VLDB 6.1578957e-05
5,518 HyBench: A New Benchmark for HTAP Databases 2024 VLDB 6.0949417e-05
6,098 PALF: Replicated Write-Ahead Logging for Distributed Databases 2024 VLDB 5.8854897e-05
6,747 Mitigating the Impedance Mismatch between Prediction Query Execution and Database Engine 2025 SIGMOD 5.6883491e-05
7,658 BALANCE: Bayesian Linear Attribution for Root Cause Localization 2023 SIGMOD 5.4746904e-05
7,755 Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks 2023 VLDB 5.4572273e-05
7,833 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.441313e-05
7,857 Timestamp as a Service, not an Oracle 2024 VLDB 5.437582e-05
8,228 ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads 2026 VLDB 5.3734043e-05
9,475 DFlush: DPU-Offloaded Flush for Disaggregated LSM-based Key-Value Stores 2025 SIGMOD 5.1703059e-05
9,661 FEAST: A Communication-efficient Federated Feature Selection Framework for Relational Data 2023 SIGMOD 5.142891e-05
9,717 Chimera: Mitigating Ownership Transfers in Multi-Primary Shared-Storage Cloud-Native Databases 2025 VLDB 5.1346445e-05
9,719 OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster 2023 VLDB 5.1345617e-05
9,725 APQO: An Adaptive Framework for Parametric Query Optimization 2026 SIGMOD 5.1325223e-05
9,876 Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases 2025 VLDB 5.115241e-05
10,240 MaLT: A Framework for Managing Large Transactions in OceanBase 2025 SIGMOD 5.0524002e-05
10,265 From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC 2025 VLDB 5.0480912e-05
10,321 AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud 2025 VLDB 5.0362412e-05
10,367 A Multi-tenant Relational OLTP Database at Salesforce 2026 CIDR 4.9769913e-05
10,457 Eliminating Redundant Feature Tests in Decision Tree and Random Forest Inference on SQL Predicates 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,520 TaCo: Data-adaptive and Query-aware Subspace Collision for High-dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,539 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,751 OBELISK: Efficient Offline Query Planning with Bayesian Optimization-Informed Language Model Reasoning 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,804 Storage-Centric Relation Design via High-Quality Approximate Functional Dependencies 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,875 Tux: Efficient Drop-in Networking for Database Systems 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,881 Detecting Data-Type-Related Logic Bugs in Relational DBMSs via Compatible Database Construction 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,930 OceanBase Bacchus: A High-Performance and Scalable Cloud-Native Shared Storage Architecture for Multi-Cloud 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,939 Seron: Smart Query Router for Multi-Primary Cloud-Native Databases with Shared Storage 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,941 IMLane: Composable Framework for Efficient AI Function Execution in Database Engine 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,943 A Tree-Structured Two-Phase Commit Framework for OceanBase: Optimizing Scalability and Consistency 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,947 Towards Industrial-Scale Parametric Query Optimization 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,956 Salesforce Database: A Cloud-Native Multi-Tenant OLTP Database 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,139 OpenMLDB: A Real-Time Relational Data Feature Computation System for Online ML 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,143 TXSQL: Lock Optimizations Towards High Contented Workloads 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,192 Efficient and Accurate Differentially Private Cardinality Continual Releases 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,253 K2: On Optimizing Distributed Transactions in a Multi-region Data Store with TrueTime Clocks 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,338 HAWK: A Workload-driven Hierarchical Deadlock Detection Approach in Distributed Database System 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,418 DBPecker: A Graph-Based Compound Anomaly Diagnosis System for Distributed RDBMSs 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,450 Towards Practical Oblivious Map 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,459 RankPQO: Learning-to-Rank for Parametric Query Optimization 2025 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,624 Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,740 F3 KM: Federated, Fair, and Fast k-means 2023 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
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Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
23 Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark 2015 SIGMOD 0.00055384955
185 CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database 2020 SIGMOD 0.00026060465
224 Self-Driving Database Management Systems 2017 CIDR 0.00024011047
228 Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023915456
234 TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database 2020 VLDB 0.00023756332
617 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015548752
747 Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014279621
1,200 Bridging the Archipelago between Row-Stores and Column-Stores for Hybrid Workloads 2016 SIGMOD 0.00011559584
1,242 BatchDB: Efficient Isolated Execution of Hybrid OLTP+OLAP Workloads for Interactive Applications 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011378275
1,576 F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business 2012 SIGMOD 0.00010187087
1,791 Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads 2021 SIGMOD 9.6213736e-05
2,499 Towards Scalable Real-time Analytics: An Architecture for Scale-out of OLxP Workloads 2015 VLDB 8.3795899e-05
2,618 The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database 2016 VLDB 8.2193318e-05
2,998 F1 Lightning: HTAP as a Service 2020 VLDB 7.7667188e-05
4,401 Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling 2020 SIGMOD 6.6121514e-05
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