Benefits of Oracle Global Data Services

Review the core business and technical benefits Oracle GDS delivers to Oracle database deployments worldwide.

Global Data Services (GDS) allows fault-tolerant database services to be deployed and centrally managed across a set of replicated databases. The GDS framework provides workload balancing across these databases.

Benefits of the GDS solution

GDS is an Oracle-integrated solution that renders the following benefits:

Higher availability and global scalability: Support seamless inter-database service failover among replicated databases in any data center, yielding higher application availability.
GDS provides application scalability on demand: Allows dynamic addition of databases. It enables replicated databases to be added to the GDS infrastructure dynamically and transparently to obtain additional resource capability to scale application workloads. GDS allows this with no change to the application configuration or client connectivity.
Better Performance and Elasticity: With integrated load balancing across multiple databases, GDS addresses inter-region resource fragmentation. Under-utilized resources in one region can be put to work on the workload of another region's over-utilized resources, achieving optimal resource utilization. GDS sends work requests to less powerful databases in a GDS pool containing replicated databases running on database servers of different processor generations and various resources (CPU, memory, I/O). When more powerful databases are overloaded, the goal should be to equalize the response time.

Extended benefits of Oracle GDS include

Faster processing for analytics : All shards are presented to an application as a single logical database, speeding query response time on extremely large data sets.
Future-proof scalability for increased data volume and transaction processing : Eliminate performance bottlenecks while enabling linearly scaled database performance.
RAFT Replication : Enables rapid failover within seconds and zero data loss during node or data center outages, facilitating an Active-Active-Active symmetric distributed database architecture that enhances availability, simplifies management, and optimizes resource utilization globally.
Meet data compliance and residency demands : Ensures that data stays in a given geographical location. Facilitates a single global database, with data distributed across multiple regions.
Deploy in the cloud or your data center : On Oracle Base Database Service, Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, or a multicloud architecture across Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.

You can use Oracle GDS to achieve these benefits without the need to integrate with multiple-point solutions or homegrown products. GDS provides optimized hardware and software utilization, better performance, scalability, and availability for application workloads running on replicated databases.

Parent topic: Introduction to Oracle AI Database Global Data Services