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GoldenGate Studio Free and GoldenGate Free

Oracle GoldenGate Free is the same, powerful Oracle GoldenGate that businesses throughout the world rely on for real-time fault-tolerant database replication. Oracle GoldenGate Free provides all the features of the licensed GoldenGate product. Oracle GoldenGate Studio Free adds a recipe-driven user interface. Both solutions deploy from a Docker container onto laptops, on-premises or in any cloud—for free.

Oracle GoldenGate Free Overview — Oracle GoldenGate Studio Free Overview (3:15)

Empower Your Data Fabric with Real-Time Data Integration for AI and Analytics

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Benefits of GoldenGate Free

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Fault-tolerant real-time replication is an essential mission-critical capability that enables business responsiveness and IT resiliency. GoldenGate Free can be used for high availability and to synchronize operational systems, load data warehouses, keep test systems up to date, manage online migrations, and upgrade databases—without downtime.
Experience all the features of GoldenGate

Set up complex resilient replication scenarios across your diverse operational, analytical, and migration data fabric ecosystem. Get hands on with all enterprise-class replication capabilities across your development, test, and production multicloud databases.
Easier than ever

GoldenGate Free has been redesigned for ease of use throughout the replication lifecycle. It’s easy to set up with visual replication pipelines drawing from a catalog of common patterns and easy to run with an entirely automated replication process.

What’s included in GoldenGate Free?

GoldenGate Free includes several recent enhancements that simplify enterprise data movement and improve data integrity at scale.

New unified management console

Easily configure, manage, and monitor diverse processes across your heterogenous data fabric from a single, intuitive console. Streamline operations, save time, and gain a holistic view of performance metrics for better data governance—all in one unified experience.
Certified with AI Database 26ai

Provides replication support for all new Oracle AI Database 26ai objects and data types, including vectors, blockchain, immutable tables, Boolean data types, 4K columns, and SQL domains. GoldenGate Free also works with AI Database 26ai—Developer Release.
Replication recipes simplify setup

Minimize implementation cycles and synchronization errors with recipe-driven setup of bidirectional or one-way data pipelines. GoldenGate Studio 26ai now supports MySQL connections with recipes for replication and migration between environments.
Deep observability and diagnostics

Improved runtime health checks, logging, alerts, and Telegraf and AWR integration enable easier manageability and improved reliability, throughput, and performance.

Why use Oracle GoldenGate Free?

Looking to manage real-time, fault-tolerant data movement? Learn more about database replication using Oracle GoldenGate Free.

GoldenGate is the most reliable way to move data between Oracle databases. Now, you can use it for free.
Educators and students can gain experience with best-in-class CDC database replication.
Developers and data architects can rapidly prototype the most complex and diverse use cases with templates for rapid pipeline creation and automation of entire replication lifecycle.
DBAs and DevOps can ensure fault-tolerant data movement and minimize impact on source systems during capture and extracts.
Everyone can appreciate the value of real-time data capture versus traditional scheduled ETL and the positive impact on business operations, decision-making, and AI/ML training.

What analysts are saying about GoldenGate Free

Read what industry analysts are saying about the free version of GoldenGate.

Change data capture is experiencing a resurgence of growth and increasingly it is being used as a source of streaming data for real-time analytics. But cost has been a barrier to these types of technologies. GoldenGate Free removes the cost barrier and gives customers the opportunity to experiment with all the latest GoldenGate features – including the new recipe-based configuration user experience which should simplify implementations.

Stewart Bond, Vice President, Data Intelligence and Integration Software

JANUARY 29, 2026

Announcing Oracle GoldenGate 26ai: Smarter Automation, Broader Compatibility, and Simplified Operations

Alex Lima, Director of Product Management, Oracle

Oracle GoldenGate 26ai simplifies enterprise data movement and improves data integrity at scale across the heterogenous, AI-ready data fabric platform. It introduces a new, built-in AI service, automatic schema evolution, AI Database 26ai support, and more.

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