With Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous
Database powered by AI and ML, customers
can cut operational complexity and costs
AUSTIN,
Texas, March 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
today announced the general availability of Oracle Globally
Distributed Autonomous Database. Built on Oracle's proven sharding
technology, Globally Distributed Autonomous Database delivers
the benefits of Oracle Autonomous Database while also giving
customers control over data distribution and data placement
policies. This enables organizations to automatically distribute
and store data across the globe in many physical locations
transparently to applications. With this approach, customers can
obtain the highest possible levels of scalability and availability,
address data sovereignty requirements, and benefit from autonomous
operations, significantly reducing costs.
As a full-featured, converged database, Globally Distributed
Autonomous Database simplifies the development and use of
distributed databases for mission-critical applications by
supporting virtually any data type, workload, and programming style
at scale. Existing SQL applications can use distributed databases
without having to be rewritten. In order to meet the needs of each
application, Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous Database
supports more data distribution, replication, and deployment
methods than other distributed databases.
"Organizations with global operations have specific application
demands around data sovereignty, scale, and availability that can
vary between continents and countries. These demands can be
addressed by a mission-critical distributed database architecture
capable of supporting global distribution," said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president,
Mission-Critical Database Technologies, Oracle. "The new Globally
Distributed Autonomous Database meets this need and enables
customers to leverage a serverless, elastic, and auto-scale
architecture to dramatically lower costs. With its converged
database capabilities, our new Globally Distributed Autonomous
Database is the simplest, most functional, and most
mission-critical distributed database cloud service in the
world."
Distributed databases can be difficult to deploy and manage due
to the large number of servers deployed across multiple locations.
Globally Distributed Autonomous Database eliminates this complexity
by using and extending Autonomous Database's AI and ML-driven
automation with automatic data distribution and shard management.
Administrators can manage the distributed database as a single
logical database, and use automated provisioning, tuning, scaling,
patching, and security capabilities to avoid time-consuming manual
tasks and potential errors. In addition, automatic database scaling
per individual shard enables customers to ramp up and draw down
resources to meet demand and minimize consumption and cost.
Additional Oracle Database Enhancements
With Oracle's
integration of generative AI across its technology stack,
developers have access to new tools, including Autonomous Database
Select AI, to integrate AI and ML into their applications. Select
AI can translate natural language questions in a conversational
thread into SQL queries using large language models (LLMs). With
Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, the SQL query is
automatically routed to the appropriate country or shard to
generate the answers. In addition, Oracle Database 23c with Raft
quorum-based consensus replication will provide automatic
sub-3-second application failover with zero data loss. This and AI
Vector Search with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) integration
will be available later this year.
Customer and Analyst Commentary
"Oracle's Globally
Distributed Database allows us to comply with data residency
regulations by automatically distributing the data to various
countries transparent to the application users, in a very
economical way," said Bilal Ramadan,
chief delivery officer, Munich Re HealthTech.
"Many database systems feature one or another sharding technique
to help users manage a set of data across multiple databases and,
in some cases, achieve a distributed database capability. These
usually involve placing a heavy burden on application developers to
write code that will segregate and orchestrate shard updates in
such a way that they avoid conflicting data and illogical data
combinations. Oracle's approach to sharding avoids all that, making
application interaction with databases transparent and reliable,"
said Carl Olofson, research vice
president, Data Management Software, IDC. "In addition, Oracle's
proven RAC clustering technology extended to this distributed
database approach enables it to offer a rich variety of data
distribution models, replication methods, and shard deployment
options that are easy to manage, straightforward to develop
against, and enable Oracle Database to meet unique customer
requirements. Taken together, these capabilities make Oracle a key
player in the distributed database category."
Additional Resources
- Read the technical blog
- Read what industry analysts are saying about Globally
Distributed Autonomous Database
- Learn more about Oracle Autonomous Database
- Learn more about AI capabilities in Autonomous Database
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