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Malaysian Reserve
3 days ago
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
Ba0Ba0 and OceanBase Forge Partnership to Expand Intelligent Automation Through Combined AI and Database Expertise
SINGAPORE, Aug. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Ba0Ba0, a Singapore-based AI company with a zero token, zero licensing cost model and a local LLM CPU-first architecture, today announced a strategic partnership with OceanBase to co-develop and expand AI automation solutions across Singapore and other ASEAN markets. The partnership will merge Ba0Ba0's affordable, locally deployable AI capabilities with OceanBase's industry-leading database technology, enabling enterprises across banking, healthcare, retail, and other sectors to accelerate digital transformation with unmatched efficiency and cost control. Through this partnership, Ba0Ba0 will integrate OceanBase's AI-ready, multi-cloud distributed database capabilities into its AI automation solutions, delivering higher efficiency, reliability, and scalability for enterprise backends. This integration ensures secure, high-performance deployments while eliminating the usage-based fees and licensing costs that have historically limited AI adoption in many industries. OceanBase's built-in vector capabilities enable AI development directly within SQL, simplifying the AI stack and allowing seamless hybrid searches across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data — all while integrating OLTP, OLAP, and AI workloads in a single database. These innovations unlock modernized AI applications such as intelligent recommendations, AI-powered conversational systems through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and enterprise-level AI agents. OceanBase's advanced AI database capabilities have been leveraged by customers across diverse scenarios, including a hotel image retrieval and display system developed by Group, and Lalamove's advanced solutions such as a loss-prevention code recognition system and an AI assistant for data warehouse inquiry. 'Our mission has always been to make AI affordable, accessible, and impactful for every industry, regardless of size or budget,' said Jesslyn Wong, Founder of Ba0Ba0 AI. 'By partnering with OceanBase, we are combining leading-edge AI automation with world-class database technology to empower businesses across banking, healthcare, retail, and beyond. This December, we are taking our vision beyond Earth — with the Ba0Ba0 AI LLM set to be deployed aboard a space cubesat satellite as part of the Tristar mission in collaboration with the Russian space agency — marking a milestone in making AI truly universal.' Hong-Chia How, General Manager of the APAC market at OceanBase. remarked, 'The emergence of the new AI era, accompanied by exponential growth in data warehouses, presents unprecedented opportunities alongside significant challenges in data storage, management, and analysis. OceanBase is evolving from an integrated database into a comprehensive, AI-ready data platform, with AI as a core strategic pillar of our future. By strengthening our Data x AI capabilities, we aim to unlock real-world impact from the latest AI innovations. 'We are excited to join hands with Ba0Ba0, bringing our AI database expertise to accelerate AI transformation across Southeast Asia. We invite organizations exploring AI use cases , as well as SaaS providers seeking to transform their applications, to partner with us on this journey.' added How. Ba0Ba0 stems from charity roots and remains privately owned for the benefit of the masses, focusing on delivering enterprise-grade AI automation without hidden costs. Its CPU-first, locally deployable large language model ensures data sovereignty, scalability, and zero token/zero licensing cost, enabling organizations to adopt AI without financial or operational lock-in. Operating in over 170 availability zones across more than 50 geographic regions on major global cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud, OceanBase has successfully assisted over 2,000 customers worldwide in upgrading their database systems. About Ba0Ba0 Ba0Ba0 is a Singapore-based AI company dedicated to making advanced AI automation accessible to all. Built on charity-inspired values, Ba0Ba0 remains privately owned to safeguard its mission of serving the public good. Its flagship technology features a zero token, zero licensing cost model and a local LLM CPU-first architecture, enabling secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AI deployments without reliance on expensive cloud GPU infrastructure. Ba0Ba0 empowers industries including banking, healthcare, and retail to harness AI automation while retaining full control of their data and costs. About OceanBase OceanBase is a distributed database launched in 2010. It provides strong data consistency, high availability, high performance, cost efficiency, elastic scalability, and compatibility with mainstream relational databases. It handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads through a unified data engine, enabling mission-critical applications and real-time analytics. To learn more, please visit: Media Contacts Ba0Ba0 AIMedia RelationsEmail: press@
Korea Herald
23-05-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
OceanBase Hosts Technical Symposium on Data x AI and Has Six Papers Accepted at ICDE 2025
HONG KONG, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OceanBase hosted a technical symposium during the annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025), a leading global conference in data and information engineering held in Hong Kong this week. The symposium brought together database researchers and professionals from academia and industry to delve into the transformative intersection of database and AI technologies. In the symposium, Charlie Yang, Chief Technology Officer of OceanBase, presented OceanBase's vision for an AI-ready data infrastructure, emphasizing its commitment to empowering intelligent, scalable, and resilient data ecosystems. Notable professors, researchers and experts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Northeastern University, and OneConnect Financial Technology (Hong Kong), shared their research findings and industry insights around data x AI innovations and applications. Meanwhile, six papers authored or contributed to by the OceanBase team were accepted at ICDE 2025. Among them, " OceanBase Unionization: Building the Next Generation of Online Map Applications," co-authored with Alibaba and Cornell University researchers, was recognized as the Best Industry and Application Paper Runner Up. This paper proposes the architectural design of OceanBase's distributed database system, which "unitizes" services and operations into individual machines, bringing stronger disaster tolerance and achieving better performance in real-world testing with AMap, an online map application platform supporting large-scale distributed services. Serving over 2,000 customers globally, including Alipay, Pop Mart, GCash and DANA, OceanBase remains dedicated to advancing database technologies in today's AI-driven era. Since 2024, more than ten of its research papers have been accepted at top database conferences worldwide, including ICDE, SIGMOD, and VLDB. These papers cover a wide range of topics in distributed database technology, such as innovative algorithm for solving the fair clustering problem, Paxos-backed Append-only Log File (PALF) system, and functionality-aware database tuning. Since its inception in 2010, OceanBase has actively collaborated with esteemed universities and research institutes such as East China Normal University, Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, to explore the forefront of database technologies. These collaborations involve establishing joint laboratories, pursuing research projects, and co-hosting database competitions. Moreover, OceanBase has partnered with institutions like Ant Research and the China Computer Federation to establish funds to conduct in-depth research on major technical challenges for modern databases, including "stand-alone and distributed integrated architecture," "transaction processing and analytical processing (TP and AP) integration," "storage-computing separation," and "database performance optimization", and bring scientific research into real-world applications. About OceanBase OceanBase is a distributed database launched in 2010. It provides strong data consistency, high availability, high performance, cost efficiency, elastic scalability, and compatibility with mainstream relational databases. It handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads through a unified data engine, enabling mission-critical applications and real-time analytics.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
OceanBase Hosts Technical Symposium on Data x AI and Has Six Papers Accepted at ICDE 2025
HONG KONG, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OceanBase hosted a technical symposium during the annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025), a leading global conference in data and information engineering held in Hong Kong this week. The symposium brought together database researchers and professionals from academia and industry to delve into the transformative intersection of database and AI technologies. In the symposium, Charlie Yang, Chief Technology Officer of OceanBase, presented OceanBase's vision for an AI-ready data infrastructure, emphasizing its commitment to empowering intelligent, scalable, and resilient data ecosystems. Notable professors, researchers and experts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Northeastern University, and OneConnect Financial Technology (Hong Kong), shared their research findings and industry insights around data x AI innovations and applications. Meanwhile, six papers authored or contributed to by the OceanBase team were accepted at ICDE 2025. Among them, "OceanBase Unionization: Building the Next Generation of Online Map Applications," co-authored with Alibaba and Cornell University researchers, was recognized as the Best Industry and Application Paper Runner Up. This paper proposes the architectural design of OceanBase's distributed database system, which "unitizes" services and operations into individual machines, bringing stronger disaster tolerance and achieving better performance in real-world testing with AMap, an online map application platform supporting large-scale distributed services. Serving over 2,000 customers globally, including Alipay, Pop Mart, GCash and DANA, OceanBase remains dedicated to advancing database technologies in today's AI-driven era. Since 2024, more than ten of its research papers have been accepted at top database conferences worldwide, including ICDE, SIGMOD, and VLDB. These papers cover a wide range of topics in distributed database technology, such as innovative algorithm for solving the fair clustering problem, Paxos-backed Append-only Log File (PALF) system, and functionality-aware database tuning. Since its inception in 2010, OceanBase has actively collaborated with esteemed universities and research institutes such as East China Normal University, Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, to explore the forefront of database technologies. These collaborations involve establishing joint laboratories, pursuing research projects, and co-hosting database competitions. Moreover, OceanBase has partnered with institutions like Ant Research and the China Computer Federation to establish funds to conduct in-depth research on major technical challenges for modern databases, including "stand-alone and distributed integrated architecture," "transaction processing and analytical processing (TP and AP) integration," "storage-computing separation," and "database performance optimization", and bring scientific research into real-world applications. About OceanBase OceanBase is a distributed database launched in 2010. It provides strong data consistency, high availability, high performance, cost efficiency, elastic scalability, and compatibility with mainstream relational databases. It handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads through a unified data engine, enabling mission-critical applications and real-time analytics. To learn more, please visit: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE OceanBase Sign in to access your portfolio
Malaysian Reserve
23-05-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
OceanBase Hosts Technical Symposium on Data x AI and Has Six Papers Accepted at ICDE 2025
HONG KONG, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — OceanBase hosted a technical symposium during the annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025), a leading global conference in data and information engineering held in Hong Kong this week. The symposium brought together database researchers and professionals from academia and industry to delve into the transformative intersection of database and AI technologies. In the symposium, Charlie Yang, Chief Technology Officer of OceanBase, presented OceanBase's vision for an AI-ready data infrastructure, emphasizing its commitment to empowering intelligent, scalable, and resilient data ecosystems. Notable professors, researchers and experts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Northeastern University, and OneConnect Financial Technology (Hong Kong), shared their research findings and industry insights around data x AI innovations and applications. Meanwhile, six papers authored or contributed to by the OceanBase team were accepted at ICDE 2025. Among them, 'OceanBase Unionization: Building the Next Generation of Online Map Applications,' co-authored with Alibaba and Cornell University researchers, was recognized as the Best Industry and Application Paper Runner Up. This paper proposes the architectural design of OceanBase's distributed database system, which 'unitizes' services and operations into individual machines, bringing stronger disaster tolerance and achieving better performance in real-world testing with AMap, an online map application platform supporting large-scale distributed services. Serving over 2,000 customers globally, including Alipay, Pop Mart, GCash and DANA, OceanBase remains dedicated to advancing database technologies in today's AI-driven era. Since 2024, more than ten of its research papers have been accepted at top database conferences worldwide, including ICDE, SIGMOD, and VLDB. These papers cover a wide range of topics in distributed database technology, such as innovative algorithm for solving the fair clustering problem, Paxos-backed Append-only Log File (PALF) system, and functionality-aware database tuning. Since its inception in 2010, OceanBase has actively collaborated with esteemed universities and research institutes such as East China Normal University, Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, to explore the forefront of database technologies. These collaborations involve establishing joint laboratories, pursuing research projects, and co-hosting database competitions. Moreover, OceanBase has partnered with institutions like Ant Research and the China Computer Federation to establish funds to conduct in-depth research on major technical challenges for modern databases, including 'stand-alone and distributed integrated architecture,' 'transaction processing and analytical processing (TP and AP) integration,' 'storage-computing separation,' and 'database performance optimization', and bring scientific research into real-world applications. About OceanBase OceanBase is a distributed database launched in 2010. It provides strong data consistency, high availability, high performance, cost efficiency, elastic scalability, and compatibility with mainstream relational databases. It handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads through a unified data engine, enabling mission-critical applications and real-time analytics. To learn more, please visit:
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
OceanBase Hosts Technical Symposium on Data x AI and Has Six Papers Accepted at ICDE 2025
HONG KONG, May 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OceanBase hosted a technical symposium during the annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025), a leading global conference in data and information engineering held in Hong Kong this week. The symposium brought together database researchers and professionals from academia and industry to delve into the transformative intersection of database and AI technologies. In the symposium, Charlie Yang, Chief Technology Officer of OceanBase, presented OceanBase's vision for an AI-ready data infrastructure, emphasizing its commitment to empowering intelligent, scalable, and resilient data ecosystems. Notable professors, researchers and experts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Northeastern University, and OneConnect Financial Technology (Hong Kong), shared their research findings and industry insights around data x AI innovations and applications. Meanwhile, six papers authored or contributed to by the OceanBase team were accepted at ICDE 2025. Among them, "OceanBase Unionization: Building the Next Generation of Online Map Applications," co-authored with Alibaba and Cornell University researchers, was recognized as the Best Industry and Application Paper Runner Up. This paper proposes the architectural design of OceanBase's distributed database system, which "unitizes" services and operations into individual machines, bringing stronger disaster tolerance and achieving better performance in real-world testing with AMap, an online map application platform supporting large-scale distributed services. Serving over 2,000 customers globally, including Alipay, Pop Mart, GCash and DANA, OceanBase remains dedicated to advancing database technologies in today's AI-driven era. Since 2024, more than ten of its research papers have been accepted at top database conferences worldwide, including ICDE, SIGMOD, and VLDB. These papers cover a wide range of topics in distributed database technology, such as innovative algorithm for solving the fair clustering problem, Paxos-backed Append-only Log File (PALF) system, and functionality-aware database tuning. Since its inception in 2010, OceanBase has actively collaborated with esteemed universities and research institutes such as East China Normal University, Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, to explore the forefront of database technologies. These collaborations involve establishing joint laboratories, pursuing research projects, and co-hosting database competitions. Moreover, OceanBase has partnered with institutions like Ant Research and the China Computer Federation to establish funds to conduct in-depth research on major technical challenges for modern databases, including "stand-alone and distributed integrated architecture," "transaction processing and analytical processing (TP and AP) integration," "storage-computing separation," and "database performance optimization", and bring scientific research into real-world applications. About OceanBase OceanBase is a distributed database launched in 2010. It provides strong data consistency, high availability, high performance, cost efficiency, elastic scalability, and compatibility with mainstream relational databases. It handles transactional, analytical, and AI workloads through a unified data engine, enabling mission-critical applications and real-time analytics. To learn more, please visit: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE OceanBase
