Oracle GoldenGate emerges as a leading solution in the vast universe of data management, offering a unique capability for information replication and transformation.
Their role is crucial in creating highly available and seamlessly synchronized environments in real-time, deploying their capabilities across a wide range of sources ranging from traditional databases to next-generation cloud services.
In this blog, we thoroughly explore the versatility and potential of Oracle GoldenGate, revealing how it becomes an essential resource for:
- Data integration
- High availability guarantee
- Execution of online migrations with mastery.
From its fundamentals to its practical applications, dive with us into the fascinating world of Oracle GoldenGate.
Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service on OCI
Historically, Oracle GoldenGate has been an on-premise solution. The Oracle GoldenGate service on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) merges the functionality of on-premise with the benefits of the cloud. This opens the door to enjoy the robustness of on-premise functionalities along with the benefits of the public cloud:
- One-click deployment
- Pay-as-you-go
- Scalability and elasticity on demand
Advantages of the OCI GoldenGate Cloud Service
1. On-premise functionality with public cloud benefits
The OCI GoldenGate service combines On-Premise functionality with the benefits of the public cloud, facilitating deployment, scalability and pay-as-you-go.
It uses the latest GoldenGate 21c microservices architecture, enabling a global network of connected data resources. Encapsulated microservices allow for seamless integration into development processes as an infrastructure-by-code service.
Mounted as a Hub, the same Microservices Hub server serves all deployments as needed. By activating it with a few clicks, developers and database administrators can configure the service for 3x autoscale, providing a gradual start and flexible growth as workloads increase.
2. Analytic connectivity to any source/destination data source
The OCI GoldenGate service is an ANY-ANY tool, which means that it is compatible with virtually any source/destination data source. This provides the flexibility to connect and synchronize data between different systems and databases, regardless of location or format.
In addition, it is integrated with GoldenGate Stream Analytics for OCI, enabling multi-cloud streaming data analysis with AI/ML, geospatial and time series data.
3. Approach migrations with Near-Zero RTO
Oracle GoldenGate is a crucial solution for migrations with a near-zero RTO (Recovery Time Objective). This means that it facilitates data migrations with minimal disruption to the target recovery time, ensuring seamless business continuity.
It is especially useful for Oracle 11, 12, and 19 database migrations that require High Availability, allowing the only interruption to be the disconnection of clients in the source environment to start working in the target environment.
Importantly, this service is free for OCI Cloud migrations, offering a smooth and cost-effective transition to the cloud.
4. Disaster Recovery approach (as a Data Guard)
The OCI GoldenGate service can also be used to implement a disaster recovery strategy similar to Data Guard. This ensures a backup of data in the event of a disaster, ensuring the availability and integrity of business-critical data.
Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service pricing: €0.0899775 per vCPU.
In short, Oracle GoldenGate is a data replication and transformation tool that ensures real-time synchronization between various sources.
The OCI GoldenGate Cloud service combines on-premise functionality with the benefits of the Cloud, offering connectivity, efficient migrations, and a robust disaster recovery strategy to ensure business continuity.