GoldenGate Bridges the gaps between Production and BCP
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Oracle GoldenGate is used as part of our business continuity plan. We use it to replicate in near realtime, transactions from the primary database to the BCP copy of the database. We also use it to maintain a reporting instance of our transactional database so we can offload read-only type queries in order to minimize performance impacts on the transactional database. We are experimenting with using GoldenGate to perform some transformations for us so that we can create data marts for various teams within the organization. That is still in the POC stage.
Pros
- Replication
- Business Continuity
- Query offloading
Cons
- Requires a specialized skillset
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it's a great product. We apply Oracle GoldenGate to several use cases in our organization. 1. Business Continuity Planning, 2. Query Offloading through data replication to a reporting instance of our data, 3. looking into data transformations to help support various queries for different teams within the business.
