[wanghq]

Oh, what's going on here?

> OceanBase, the database of Alibaba's fintech company Ant Group, will be open-source soon, possibly as early as June 1, according to Sina Tech.

https://cntechpost.com/2021/05/27/ant-groups-in-house-databa...

Also the team published many papers about PolarDB.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=%22...

[wejick]

Looks like they're different technologies, found that oceandb has been offered in AliCloud under ApsaraDB umbrella https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/oceanbase

[wanghq]

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. I was surprised because two databases from Alibaba are open sourced or to be open sourced.

[foobarbazetc]

Alibaba is huge and different teams have different goals.

That one is for fintech.

[yftsui]

These are just KPI projects as their performance are judged by meaningless metrics. OceanBase WAS open sourced, after the news reports and publicity, Alibaba deleted all code and replaced it with a Chinese announcement says it will no longer be an open source project.