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. These features make the new version appropriate for small and medium-size businesses, the company said. The new version also boasts features such as zero data loss rate and a disaster recovery time of less than eight seconds compared to the…