Oracle Globally Distributed Database is a single logical database that automatically distributes and replicates data across various nodes, regions, and countries. It helps organizations build always-on architectures and achieve high performance while addressing data residency requirements. Applications can use Oracle AI Database’s converged capabilities, strong consistency, and full SQL support without code changes. Globally Distributed Database is available as automated services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), as well as part of multicloud and on-premises Oracle AI Database deployments.
Automatically distribute Oracle databases across nodes, regions, and countries to help meet data residency, extreme availability, and performance needs.
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Enable rapid failover within seconds and help eliminate data loss during outages with Raft replication and an Active-Active-Active distributed database architecture that’s designed for mission-critical applications.
Reduce performance bottlenecks with independent and granularly scaled database compute, storage capacity, and data ingest rates for AI, transaction processing, and analytics.
Help meet data residency requirements by implementing automated data distribution and access policies for data, replicas, backups, and encryption keys based on geography.
All shards are presented to an application and administered as a single logical database, simplifying application development and database administration. Oracle AI Database workloads and data types that are supported include relational, AI vector, JSON, Graph, and Spatial.
Choose from more data distribution and replication methods than other leading distributed databases to more easily address diverse application and business requirements.
Use Globally Distributed Autonomous AI Database and Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure in OCI, Oracle AI Database services on OCI in multicloud environments, and Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition in customer data centers.
Six data distribution methods enable applications to optimally collocate data to address needs for low latency, high performance, extreme availability, data residency, and other criteria.
Handle peak workloads for agentic AI and hyperscale OLTP performance by scaling compute, memory, and storage independently on Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure.
A built-in shard catalog allows all shards in Globally Distributed Database to be managed as a single, logical database. Cloud services implement centralized administration through the cloud console.
Oracle Globally Distributed Database is natively supported by Oracle AI Database client drivers. Developers can treat Globally Distributed Database as a single logical database, simplifying application development.
Oracle Globally Distributed Database helps protect against unplanned outages and provides online mechanisms for planned administrative and maintenance operations, enabling applications to offer always-on availability.
Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous AI Database combines the shared-nothing scalability, data locality management, and extreme availability of a distributed database with the full automation of Oracle Autonomous AI Database. It helps customers meet data residency requirements, provide survivability for business-critical applications, and deliver cloud-scale database performance.
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Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure delivers extreme availability, performance, and scalability for any type of Oracle AI Database workload. Each location uses pools of shared database-optimized compute and storage resources that enable performance scaling without copying data. It lets organizations minimize costs with small—yet powerful—configurations, granular elastic scaling, and pay-per-use economics.
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Oracle databases on OCI offer built-in access to globally distributed database capabilities. Existing Oracle AI Database applications can start using a distributed database without modifications. Consumption of database server licenses can be scaled up or down at any time without downtime, enabling users to optimize performance while reducing costs.
Use Globally Distributed Database capabilities built into Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition wherever it’s deployed. Deploy databases that span OCI, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to expand beyond the boundaries of any single cloud.
Use Globally Distributed Database capabilities built into Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition wherever it’s deployed. Deploy databases that span OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and your data centers to deploy closer to customers or in locations without cloud data centers.
Keep your data in your data center to help you meet data residency mandates, network latency, or high-throughput ingest requirements. Oracle Globally Distributed Database can be deployed on self-managed platforms or on Oracle-managed Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure wherever you need it.
Oracle offers the following choices for on-premises deployments of Globally Distributed Database:
Munich Re HealthTech gives customers insights and control with OCI
"With the introduction of built-in RAFT-based replication, the new release brings the concept of database sharding to a new level of scalability and performance. A global, hyperscale database that is distributed and replicated across multiple geographical locations in real time is now a reality—and the data within it can be transparently localized according to complex rules."
Alexei Balaganski
Lead Analyst and Chief Technology Officer, KuppingerCole Analysts
"Deploying successful agents with transactional systems is hard. With its scaling capacity, Oracle Globally Distributed Database on Exascale gives enterprises the capacity headroom so they can be confident they can scale in the AI era."
Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
Enable continuous operations and reduce data loss with sub–3-second failover across node, zone, or region outages—planned or unplanned.
Store and manage data across OCI regions or in your data centers to help meet data residency requirements— all while maintaining a unified, single-database view for applications and operations.
Seamlessly scale out to handle petabytes of data and millions of transactions per second by elastically adding compute and storage.
Run AI vector searches and analytics on petabytes of data and support core backend services for agentic AI using decoupled compute and storage on Exascale’s intelligent, database-aware high performance storage.
Improve response times by placing Globally Distributed Database nodes in OCI regions or private data centers near users and devices.
Achieve a low TCO while implementing always-on availability, addressing data residency requirements, and lowering your TCO by using cost-effective Exascale infrastructure in OCI or deploying on scalable infrastructure in your data center.
Provide the ultimate in location flexibility by deploying scalable and highly available solutions that span all leading hyperscalers and your own data centers using Globally Distributed Database capabilities built into Oracle AI Database services and licenses.
Easily scale up the performance of always-on workloads to meet peak demand and scale it back down afterwards using cost-effective Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure and your choice of software or bring your own license (BYOL) consumption models.
Today, Oracle is announcing the general availability of Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, designed to simplify the deployment of distributed mission-critical applications across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions worldwide. This purpose-built, enterprise-grade managed cloud database service automatically distributes, stores, and synchronizes data across multiple regions so applications can stay online even during regional outages. It provides full support of SQL, and helps customers meet diverse business needs for global data access, extreme scalability and performance, and data residency.
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