AI data platform OceanBase wins World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award
OceanBase, incubated by Ant Group, received the "World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award" at the 2026 World Internet Conference. The conference's award citation stated that it has built AI data infrastructure and served the development of the global digital economy. In 2026, OceanBase released a lake-and-database integrated AI database and built an AI data platform system covering AI databases, AI lake-and-database, and DataPilot, with related capabilities already implemented in scenarios of dozens of customers including Ant Afu, Lingguang, and Li Auto. Calculated by 2025 revenue, OceanBase ranks first in the distributed database market in Asia and Oceania and has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide.
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AI Data Platform OceanBase Wins World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award
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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. The reporter learned from the conference site that OceanBase received the "World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award." The conference's award citation stated, "OceanBase builds AI data infrastructure and serves the development of the global digital economy." This is the second time OceanBase has won an important award from the World Internet Conference, after winning the World Internet Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement Award in 2022. This award not only recognizes its core database technology innovation, but also reflects its industry contribution in promoting AI data infrastructure innovation and unlocking the value of enterprise data.
The World Internet Conference Outstanding Contribution Award was established in 2024 to honor outstanding contributors in global internet-related fields. For the 2026 Outstanding Contribution Award, more than 230 companies participated in the application process, covering nearly 20 countries and regions, and ultimately 15 companies won awards, among which OceanBase, YunShenChu Technology and others received awards in the growth potential category.
It is understood that OceanBase is an independently developed database company incubated by Ant Group. After 16 years of technological accumulation and industry practice, it has grown from a distributed database to gradually become a leading integrated database in China, and is further expanding into data infrastructure for the AI era.
As AI moves from generating content to executing tasks, enterprises no longer need only a database for storing and processing data, but an intelligent foundation that enables AI to understand, retrieve and invoke all data, so that data truly becomes AI productivity. In 2026, OceanBase released a lake-database integrated AI database, integrating database and data lake capabilities into a unified architecture to achieve unified management of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, allowing the same copy of data to simultaneously serve business transactions, real-time analytics and AI applications, and reducing cross-system data replication, synchronization and repeated governance.
According to the introduction, based on this, OceanBase has built an AI data platform system covering products such as AI Database, AI Lakehouse and DataPilot. Through capabilities such as multimodal data management and hybrid retrieval, it is driving data infrastructure to evolve into a unified foundation for enterprise multimodal data, a data foundation for Agents, and an intelligent data service entry point for enterprises. At present, the relevant capabilities have been implemented in dozens of customer scenarios, including Ant Afu, 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 transform scattered data into data assets that AI can invoke and businesses can use, and unlocking the value of enterprise data in the AI era.
The reporter noted that OceanBase's transformation into an AI data platform is built on long-term accumulated database technology and industry practice. Multiple market reports show that OceanBase ranks first in China's distributed database market and has achieved large-scale application in key industries such as finance, government affairs, central state-owned enterprises and telecommunications. From supporting the operation of core businesses to supporting enterprise AI innovation, the database industry is entering a new stage of evolution.
While continuing to expand in the domestic market, OceanBase is accelerating its global expansion. In 2025, the company's overseas revenue grew by 200% year on year; according to an Omdia report, based on 2025 revenue, OceanBase ranks first in the distributed database market in Asia and Oceania. At present, it has served more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including more than 100 FinTech companies and more than 400 financial institutions, and continues to participate in the construction of global financial digital infrastructure.
Yang Bing said that OceanBase will continue to adhere to independent innovation, deepen and refine the data capabilities honed in China's core business scenarios, and at the same time participate in the construction of global digital infrastructure with an open attitude, so that a unified, real-time, multimodal data foundation can serve enterprises in more countries and regions and contribute to the development of the global digital economy.
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