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OceanBase Consulting and Technical Expertise
Guides, runbooks, and a sizing calculator for teams putting OceanBase into production. Migration checklists, Paxos and HA notes, performance work, and day-two operations.
Not the official OceanBase website. Independent technical resource from VigilesHQ.
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT o.order_id, c.name, SUM(l.amount)
FROM orders o
JOIN customers c ON c.id = o.customer_id
JOIN order_lines l ON l.order_id = o.order_id
WHERE o.created_at >= '2026-01-01'
GROUP BY o.order_id, c.name
ORDER BY SUM(l.amount) DESC
LIMIT 20;
+----+-------------+-------+------------+------+
| id | operation | name | est. rows | time |
+----+-------------+-------+------------+------+
| 0 | TABLE SCAN | lines | 2,400,000 | 45ms|
| 1 | HASH JOIN | orders| 48,200 | 12ms|
| 2 | HASH GROUP | | 20 | 3ms|
+----+-------------+-------+------------+------+ Start with these pages
For architects, DBAs, and platform engineers evaluating or operating OceanBase. These are the densest technical starting points on the site.
- Concepts
Database Types Explained
OLTP, OLAP, HTAP, relational, NoSQL, vector databases, and where OceanBase fits.
- Concepts
What is OceanBase?
Distributed SQL, log streams, Paxos, and MySQL/Oracle compatibility modes.
- Migration
MySQL to OceanBase Migration Checklist
Assessment, OMS incremental sync, checksums, cutover, and rollback.
- Architecture
Log Stream Architecture in OceanBase
How tablets map to independently replicated Paxos log streams.
- HA
Paxos Quorum Design for Multi-Region
Replica placement and majority math across zones and regions.
- Backup
Backup and Point-in-Time Recovery
Snapshots, log archive, restore drills, and PITR validation.
Guide topics
Architecture, migration, HTAP, performance, HA, capacity, troubleshooting, tenancy, compatibility modes, and backup/DR.
- Topic
Multi-Tenancy & Resource Isolation
Tenant quotas, CPU/memory isolation, and noisy-neighbor mitigation.
- Topic
Compatibility Modes (MySQL & Oracle)
SQL dialect differences, driver settings, and migration gotchas.
Latest guides
- Operations/Backup/DR
Backup and Point-in-Time Recovery
Backup types, restore validation, and PITR workflows for OceanBase tenants in production.
- Troubleshooting Runbooks
Diagnosing Replication Lag
Find and fix OceanBase replication lag on log streams before it becomes an outage.
- HTAP & Real-World Use Cases
HTAP Retail Inventory: OLTP + Analytics on One Cluster
How a retail workload combines real-time inventory updates with same-day sales aggregates without ETL.
- Performance Tuning
Index Selection for Wide Tables
Practical heuristics for choosing primary, secondary, and covering indexes on wide OceanBase tables.
- Architecture Deep Dives
Log Stream Architecture in OceanBase
How OceanBase partitions data into log streams, elects leaders, and replicates via Paxos across zones.