Built-in Replication and Exascale’s Separation of Elastic Compute and Storage Provide Extreme Resilience and Scalability for Mission-Critical and Agentic AI Applications
Global organizations face mounting challenges as they strive to deliver always-on availability across multiple regions, extreme performance and scalability, low-latency access by users around the world, and compliance with data residency. Addressing all of these demands simultaneously, while remaining flexible and cost-effective, has become increasingly difficult.
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.
Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure uses a flexible, serverless architecture that can be dynamically scaled up or down to meet the needs of changing workloads without complex setup or management. Organizations with high-volume transaction processing, real-time analytics and variable agentic AI workloads gain the benefits of an always-on architecture, lower costs, simplified operations, and the ability to expand globally with confidence.
Key Capabilities for Scalable AI and Global Applications
Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure simplifies the deployment and operation of distributed databases in the public cloud. Its cloud-native architecture, combined with the full capabilities of Oracle Database, enables organizations of all sizes to run distributed AI, analytics, and mission-critical workloads at a low cost.
Let’s explore some of the key Globally Distributed Database capabilities.
- Industry-leading data distribution and replication
Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure gives users access to the industry’s most comprehensive suite of automated data distribution policies and replication methods—all while maintaining access to full Oracle Database’s SQL, data consistency, security, and advanced features—including AI Vector Search. Matching the distribution method to the needs of the application is critical for a distributed database, as it allows applications to optimally collocate data for low latency, replication, data sovereignty, maximum performance, and other requirements.
- Always-on / Never-down operations
Built-in Raft-based replication enables rapid, automatic failover with zero data loss and across nodes, availability zones, data centers, regions, and clouds.
- Data residency and regulatory compliance
Automatically store country-specific data within mandated regions to help meet regulatory requirements while maintaining a unified, single view of a single database for operational purposes.
- Eliminate Complex ETL Processes
Provision space-efficient, database-aware intelligent clones using redirect-on-write technology. Ideal for dev/test and rapid environment provisioning for ETL, this enables zero ETL analytics—delivering lower storage costs and faster insights.
- Centralized administration
Distributed databases are managed as a single logical database and use OCI monitoring to track key metrics and system health across the distributed topology. Customers gain operational simplicity at a global scale, with monitoring, managing, and backing up distributed databases becoming as easy as they are for a single instance.
- Application transparency
Existing in-house and packaged applications built using Oracle Database can transparently start to use Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure without code changes, making it easy for organizations to modernize their database environment and achieve immediate availability, performance, and data residency benefits.
Running Oracle Globally Distributed Database on Exascale Infrastructure gives you significant additional benefits:
- Cloud-native simplicity with no dedicated hardware
Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure helps organizations deploy distributed databases at a low cost using a fully managed, multitenant infrastructure in OCI. Exascale’s intelligent architecture for data delivers all of the performance and capabilities of Exadata storage, offloading AI and SQL operations from database servers to smart storage, providing extremely low-latency database I/O. Cloud automation enables quick provisioning, patching, backups, and disaster recovery through the OCI console or APIs.
- Scale Smart: Pay Only for What You Use
Using Exascale’s database-aware intelligent data architecture, customers of all sizes can start small and scale with independent compute and storage levers and with no downtime or performance penalties. Organizations can easily handle seasonal demand with instant compute scale-out without the data movement and rebalancing typically required by distributed databases Consumption-based cloud economics mean that customers only pay for the compute and storage resources used.
By combining the industry’s most comprehensive set of data distribution and replication methods, including built-in Raft-based consensus replication, with multitenant efficiency and Exadata’s industry-leading performance, organizations can benefit from low-cost, high-speed global applications.
Real-World Applications
These capabilities translate into tangible solutions across industries where global reach, data residency compliance, performance, and high availability are critical business requirements. Here’s how organizations are leveraging this technology:
- Financial Services: Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure helps organizations meet strict data residency requirements while maintaining the performance needed for real-time transactions, fraud detection, and risk analysis across multiple markets.
- Agentic AI: Run high-throughput, mission-critical databases for agentic AI workloads with always-on availability, extreme performance, petabyte scalability, and the ability to address data residency concerns. Accelerate inferencing and decision making by using AI Smart Scan to offload complex queries to intelligent, database aware Exascale storage.
- E-commerce: Optimally support global users with always-on availability and consistent performance by running active-active distributed applications across regions. Seamlessly scale out to handle petabytes of data and millions of transactions per second by elastically adding Exascale’s compute and storage independently.
- IoT: Ingest and process massive amounts of sensor data across multiple regions while gaining real-time insights and operational efficiency.
- Petabyte scale analytics: Run large-scale, multi-model analytics workloads using Exadata Smart Scan in Exascale’s intelligent, database-aware high-performance storage.
Transparent Pricing Model
With no dedicated hardware requirements or capital investment, Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure’s elastic model dramatically reduces upfront costs while providing enterprise-grade performance and adding compute and storage resources as needed. Its straightforward pricing is based on the number and shape of shards (VMs, ECPUs) and storage resources provisioned. This approach provides full cost visibility when scaling locally or on a global basis, with no hidden fees or unexpected charges.
Get Started Today
Ready to eliminate your distributed database complexity and modernize your global data strategy? Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure is available now, offering enterprises the tools they need to build truly global, resilient, high-performance applications. Discover how Oracle is redefining distributed databases for the cloud era.
Resources:
Globally Distributed Database product page on oracle.com
Globally Distributed Database LiveLabs
This announcement introduces a new option for organizations requiring globally distributed database capabilities with enterprise-grade performance and compliance features.