Oracle GoldenGate continues to lead the industry in real-time data integration, and now it is taking a bold leap into the era of AI-driven data movement. At Oracle AI World 2025, we announced the upcoming release of Oracle GoldenGate 26ai, arriving in January 2026.

This milestone release introduces AI-native capabilities, next-generation security, and expanded multicloud reach, redefining what enterprises can achieve with real-time data replication and streaming.

GoldenGate 26ai: Major New Release

GoldenGate 26ai brings together trusted, mission-critical replication with embedded intelligence. The release introduces several transformative features designed to make real-time data smarter, safer, and more adaptive.

AI Microservice Integration

A new AI microservice allows inline intelligence during data movement. This service can perform on-the-fly analysis and transformation on streaming data, enabling:

  • Vector embedding generation for AI-ready targets

  • Named Entity Recognition (NER) to classify and tag data in motion

  • PII identification within transactional streams

  • Text summarization for operational and analytic events

  • A foundation for natural language administration and agentic interfaces in future releases

This integration transforms replication pipelines into AI-enriched data streams, accelerating how organizations prepare data for machine learning, analytics, and governance.

Enhanced Security and Governance

Air-Gap Replication

GoldenGate 26ai introduces Air-Gap Replication, designed for Oracle National Security Regions (ONSRs) and other high-security environments.  
This capability enables trusted data event streaming through data diode guard devices, ensuring one-way, tamper-proof replication across disconnected domains. It represents a key advancement for defense and government workloads.

Governance

Veridata in the Cloud

Oracle GoldenGate Veridata provides powerful, automated data comparison and repair capabilities, enabling organizations to maintain data accuracy across complex, distributed systems. As part of Oracle’s GoldenGate Data Integration suite, Veridata is now available as a fully managed service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) — simplifying deployment, scaling, and operations while ensuring mission-critical data integrity.

Key Capabilities:vd

  • Data Governance: Provides compliance and assurance for mission-critical systems that must guarantee no missing or out-of-sync data between source and target environments.

  • Compare and Repair: Automates end-to-end data validation between heterogeneous systems — comparing billions of records across databases and repairing discrepancies with minimal operational overhead.

  • Heterogeneous Support: Seamlessly validates data across Oracle and non-Oracle databases, enabling cross-platform consistency and governance for modern data estates.

  • Cloud-Scale Automation: OCI GoldenGate Veridata eliminates infrastructure management, enabling users to run comparison jobs and schedule verifications through a simple and intuitive cloud interface.

With OCI GoldenGate Veridata as a Service, enterprises gain a unified, scalable, and fully managed platform for continuous data integrity assurance, spanning on-premises systems to multi-cloud deployments.

What will be New in 26c

The new GoldenGate 26c release will expand Veridata’s reach and compatibility, empowering enterprises to validate data across an even broader range of platforms and environments:

  • MariaDB and SingleStore

  • MongoDB, Atlas, AJD, JCT, DocumentDB, and Azure CosmosDB

  • Databricks (Delta Tables)

  • LDAP/Active Directory support

  • Pre-built OCR image

These enhancements further solidify GoldenGate’s position as the industry’s most flexible and heterogeneous data replication and verification platform, supporting the full spectrum of hybrid and multi-cloud data estates.

Deploy GoldenGate Anywhere – Faster and Simpler

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GoldenGate 26ai makes it easier than ever to deploy and manage anywhere, on-premises, in the cloud, or across Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. With Oracle’s best-practice container images, you can run GoldenGate “as a Service” in your own infrastructure, streamline patching and upgrades by swapping container images, and ensure high availability with built-in orchestration support.

Get up and running in minutes, confidently scaling real-time data replication for your evolving business needs. 

Simplified Operations

Auto-Schema Management

Schema evolution just got easier. The new Auto-Schema feature intelligently detects and synchronizes schema changes across heterogeneous databases, reducing manual intervention and downtime.

Platform Expansion

Broader Ecosystem Support

GoldenGate 26ai expands its reach with:

  • Oracle AI Database 26ai 

  • Oracle Autonomous AI Database 26ai

  • Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse

  • Oracle AI Data Platform

  • YugabyteDB

  • Microsoft Fabric EventStream

  • EnterpriseDB Postgres

  • Google Cloud Spanner (delivery)

Stream Analytics 26ai: Smarter Real-Time Insights

The 26ai release also transforms GoldenGate Stream Analytics (GGSA) with AI-native processing and Oracle Redwood UI enhancements.

  • Direct integration with GoldenGate Data Streams, bypassing Kafka for lower latency and cost

  • LLM and GPT integration for data enrichment, anomaly detection, and auto-transformation

  • AutoML connectivity with Oracle AI Database 26ai

  • Vector data ingestion into Oracle AI Database and similarity search for embedding-based analytics

  • Unified Redwood UI for a consistent, modern cloud and on-premises experience

Multicloud and Deployment Enhancements

GoldenGate on Microsoft Azure – General Availability

GoldenGate is now production-ready on Microsoft Azure across US East, Japan East, Germany West Central, and Singapore regions with full Azure credit support and integrated access control.

Modern Deployment Options

  • Pre-built container images on Oracle Container Registry (OCR) with quarterly bundle patches

  • Cross-region disaster recovery with fast failover for OCI GoldenGate

  • GoldenGate Studio is now bundled within the Oracle Foundation Suite for unified development

Strategic Outlook

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With GoldenGate 26ai, Oracle extends its leadership in real-time, mission-critical data replication. The solution is now certified for AI Data Platform and AI Data Lakehouse architectures across all OCI regions.   Check out this post by Deniz Sendil to learn more about the Oracle AI Data Platform and Oracle Autonomous AI Database integrations with GoldenGate!

By embedding AI microservices directly into the replication fabric, GoldenGate transforms how organizations capture, enrich, and govern data streams.
This evolution enables enterprises to move beyond data movement into intelligent, self-optimizing data pipelines ready for the next generation of AI workloads.

Get Started

Ready to explore the future of real-time, AI-driven data movement?

  • Start with Oracle Live Labs : Get hands-on with interactive GoldenGate 26ai labs and guided tutorials. Experience new AI microservices, security features, and multicloud integration in a safe, self-paced environment.

  • Register for the GoldenGate 26ai webcast: Join Oracle product experts for an inside look at the new release and to see live demonstrations.

  • Contact your Oracle representative to discuss your objectives and learn how GoldenGate 26ai can unlock new possibilities for your data architecture.