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OceanBase Database brings transactional, analytical, and AI workloads into one distributed database. Its built-in Oracle and MySQL compatibility can ease workload migration, while availability and disaster recovery extend across nodes, data centers, and regions. Community Edition is open source and free; Enterprise is self-hosted, and OceanBase Cloud is managed across cloud providers. It supports Linux installations and Docker deployment on Windows and macOS, though Docker use on those systems is cautioned as unvalidated at scale.
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MySQL
Free plan APILinuxMac+2Open-source SQL and NoSQL database development — MySQL offers SQL and NoSQL development, Document Store, and native high availability, while OceanBase combines transactional, analytical, and AI workloads.
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PgDog
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1Scaling PostgreSQL with pooling, routing, and sharding — PgDog scales PostgreSQL through pooling, load balancing, and sharding without application changes, rather than providing OceanBase's database engine.
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pgagroal
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hostedPostgreSQL connection pooling and administration — pgagroal focuses on PostgreSQL pooling, authentication, monitoring, and failover workflows instead of providing OceanBase's distributed database workloads.
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PgBouncer
Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWindowsLightweight PostgreSQL connection pooling — PgBouncer reuses PostgreSQL server connections with three pooling modes, whereas OceanBase is a distributed database for multiple workload types.
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PgDoorman
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hostedMultithreaded PostgreSQL pooling with diagnostics — PgDoorman adds multithreaded PostgreSQL pooling, prepared-statement caching, and pool coordination rather than OceanBase's database engine and workload breadth.
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ShardingSphere-Proxy
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+1Database sharding, federation, and proxy routing — ShardingSphere-Proxy provides a transparent proxy for sharding, distributed transactions, and federated queries, rather than a standalone OceanBase-style database.
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TiCDC
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+1Replicating TiDB changes to downstream systems — TiCDC captures incremental TiDB changes and exports them to downstream systems; it does not offer OceanBase's combined database workloads.
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Avidemux
Free plan Open source LinuxMacWeb+1 - 9
Supavisor
Free plan Open source APILinuxSelf-hosted - 10
Amazon RDS
Free plan APISelf-hostedWeb7.6 Visit site - 11
HeliosProxy
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted - 12
DBLE
Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted - 13
Heimdall Database Proxy
Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted - 14
Mycat2
Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted - 15
Odyssey
Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted - 16
PgCat
Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted - 17
SPQR
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted - 18
TurbineProxy
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 19
Gaea
Free plan Self-hosted - 20
kingshard
Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted - 21
Pgpool-II
Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted - 22
ProxySQL
Free plan LinuxSelf-hosted - 23
Cloudflare Hyperdrive
Free plan Web - 24
ApsaraDB RDS Database Proxy
Free plan Web
The main trade-offs are infrastructure, security, and cost: production environments require at least three servers, Community Edition lacks security auditing, and Enterprise pricing is available on request. The alternatives below vary widely: MySQL is another database, while most others address PostgreSQL connection management, routing, sharding, or replication rather than replacing a database for combined transactional, analytical, and AI workloads. Weigh the database engine and workload scope you need alongside deployment model, scaling approach, security controls, and whether a specialized tool can work with your existing database.
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