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On the morning of November 3, the 2026 World Internet Conference opened in Wuzhen, Zhejiang.
On the morning of November 3, the 2026 World Internet Conference opened in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. A reporter learned at the conference that OceanBase had received the World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award. The award citation stated, “OceanBase has built AI data infrastructure to support the development of the global digital economy.” This is another major World Internet Conference award for OceanBase, following its World Internet Leading Science and Technology Achievement Award in 2022. The award recognizes its innovation in core database technology and reflects its contribution to advancing AI data infrastructure and unlocking the value of enterprise data.
The World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award was established in 2024 to recognize outstanding contributors in internet-related fields worldwide. More than 230 companies from nearly 20 countries and regions applied for the 2026 award. Ultimately, 15 companies won awards, with OceanBase and Deep Robotics among those receiving awards in the growth potential category.
According to available information, OceanBase is an independently developed database company incubated by Ant Group. Over 16 years of technology development and industry experience, it has grown from a distributed database into a leading integrated database in China and has expanded further into data infrastructure for the AI era.
As AI moves from generating content to carrying out tasks, enterprises need more than databases that store and process data. They need an intelligent foundation that enables AI to understand, retrieve and use all their data, so that data can become a source of AI productivity. In 2026, OceanBase launched an integrated lake-and-database AI database, bringing database and data lake capabilities into a unified architecture. It provides unified management of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, allowing the same data to serve business transactions, real-time analytics and AI applications while reducing data copying, synchronization and duplicate governance across systems.
According to the company, OceanBase has built on this foundation to create an AI data platform comprising products including an AI database, an AI lake-and-database system and DataPilot. Through capabilities such as multimodal data management and hybrid retrieval, it aims to develop data infrastructure into a unified foundation for enterprise multimodal data, a data foundation for agents and an entry point for enterprise intelligent data services. These capabilities have already been put into practice in scenarios involving dozens of customers, including Ant A-Fu, Lingguang and Li Auto.
OceanBase CEO Yang Bing said that, in the AI era, databases are evolving from systems of record into intelligent data foundations, helping enterprises turn scattered data into data assets that AI can access and businesses can use, and unlocking the value of enterprise data in the AI era.
The reporter noted that OceanBase’s transition to an AI data platform rests on years of accumulated database technology and industry experience. Multiple market reports show that OceanBase ranks first in China’s distributed database market and has achieved large-scale adoption in key sectors including finance, government, central and state-owned enterprises, and telecommunications. From supporting core business operations to supporting enterprise AI innovation, the database industry is entering a new stage of development.
While continuing to expand in the domestic market, OceanBase is accelerating its global expansion. In 2025, the company’s overseas revenue grew 200% year on year. According to an Omdia report, OceanBase ranked first in the distributed database market in Asia and Oceania by 2025 revenue. It currently serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including more than 100 FinTech companies and more than 400 financial institutions, and continues to participate in building global digital financial infrastructure.
Yang Bing said OceanBase would continue to pursue independent innovation and further develop the data capabilities honed in core business scenarios in China. It would also participate openly in building global digital infrastructure, enabling its unified, real-time, multimodal data foundation to serve enterprises in more countries and regions and contribute to the development of the global digital economy.
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