We are pleased to announce two new Microsoft Azure certifications for Oracle GoldenGate: OCI Database Migration service and Azure Site Recovery. The OCI GoldenGate team has also been working closely with the Microsoft Azure team to ensure customers can utilize Oracle’s managed cloud services to support their multi-cloud data integration use cases. Preview support for Microsoft Fabric OneLake, allowing real-time integration from any OCI GoldenGate source to connect to Microsoft Fabric OneLake.
Oracle Database@Azure targets supported in OCI Database Migration service
OCI Database Migration is a managed service that provides a high performing, self-service experience to migrate databases into the cloud with near zero downtime. OCI Database Migration is now certified to migrate databases to Oracle Database@Azure. This free and easy-to-use tool provides validated, cross-version, fault-tolerant, and incremental Oracle Database@Azure migrations for online and offline use cases.
Figure 1: OCI Database Migration service sources and targets including Oracle Database@Azure
GoldenGate supported within Azure Site Recovery
We are also pleased to announce that GoldenGate deployments running in Azure can use Azure Site Recovery, a native disaster recovery service, for business continuity and high availability.
Figure 2: Architecture of GoldenGate with Azure Site Recovery
OCI GoldenGate Azure Connectivity and OneLake Preview
Figure 3: GoldenGate and Azure integration
Today, OCI GoldenGate is certified for many Azure technologies across a breadth of use cases, including:
- Oracle Database@Azure
- Azure native services such as Azure Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Event Hub, and Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Azure 3rd parties such as Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent Kafka
- Microsoft software including Microsoft SQL Server
Additionally, a new OCI GoldenGate connection for Azure OneLake is in preview. Now, any supported GoldenGate source including Oracle Database@Azure can directly integrate Azure OneLake using the Parquet format.
To learn more about these integrations join any of our GoldenGate CloudWorld sessions or better yet, hear directly from Microsoft in their session Apps and data in the era of AI with Microsoft Fabric and Oracle Database@Azure [LRN3474]. In this session the Microsoft team will cover a breadth of topics on Microsoft fabric including a demo including Oracle GoldenGate
“Join Microsoft technical experts as they demo the latest integrations and announcements, including how you can use Oracle GoldenGate for smooth data ingestion and harness the power of generative AI services like the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant to enhance your analytics capabilities, create compelling visualizations, and deliver impactful reports with Microsoft Power BI.”
Oracle GoldenGate Use Cases
Figure 4: Oracle GoldenGate’s diverse use cases
Summary
GoldenGate has long been a mission critical technology for Oracle and Azure customers and these announcements expand native support for Microsoft Azure’s latest technologies. GoldenGate’s unique fault tolerant data replication and connectivity capabilities allow for low-impact data capture which differentiates it from any conventional ETL and data replication solution. This is why GoldenGate is the preferred solution for moving real-time operational data into analytical data stores or messaging frameworks.
Resources
- Learn more about GoldenGate and OCI GoldenGate Features
- Documentation: OCI GoldenGate, Oracle GoldenGate 23ai
- See demos and how-tos at the GoldenGate YouTube channel
- Oracle Data Integration blogs
- Oracle Database@Azure
- OCI Database Migration
- Azure Site Recovery