Global Data Services Features

General

Automated high availability configurations

Global Data Services automatically detects and responds to database failures and relocates services to provide continuous database availability. This minimizes downtime for mission critical applications even during failures or maintenance.

Intelligent workload routing and load balancing

Global Data Services dynamically distributes workloads across databases replicas, standby databases, and caches, helping to optimize resource utilization and improve application response time.

Centralized service management & simplified administration

The Global Data Services Control Utility provides a single pane of control that lets administrators manage global database services centrally, helping to reduce operational complexity, improve availability, and increase database administrator productivity.

Integration with the Oracle Database ecosystem

Global Data Services works seamlessly with Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, True Cache, and Autonomous Database, leveraging existing Oracle Active Data Guard and GoldenGate licenses at no extra cost. Through these integrations, customers can create a consistent distributed data services framework that to helps them deliver greater availability for critical applications.

On-premises, hybrid cloud, and multicloud support

Global Data Services is platform and Cloud agnostic. It enables customers to easily integrate Oracle Database deployments across on-premises, Cloud@Customer, OCI, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments for extreme deployment and operational flexibility.

Flexible configuration options

Global Data Services supports active-active, active-passive, and database cache configurations that help customers tailor availability and performance to meet their business needs.