Credit: Dreamstime Alibaba and its financial services arm, Ant Financial, have launched a new version of the OceanBase distributed relational database for markets outside China.

Dubbed OceanBase 4.0 and released last week, OceanBase can run on single low-specification machines — nodes, in the world of distributed databases — such as Raspberry Pi, and is MySQL compatible, according to the vendor.

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