What is Data Sharing?

Data Sharing allows customers to improve their business and open up new opportunities.

Data Sharing scenarios:

• One organization shares data across lines of business (LOBs)

  For example, an HR department can share statistical employee data with the Financial department for cost analysis.

• Business to Business (B2B)

  For example, a retailer shares regional sales and inventory data with a supplier to help improve the supplier's production line and locations.

• Business to Customers (B2C)

  For example, a restaurant shares historical time-based pattern of busyness to allow customers to plan for their reservations.

Oracle Data Sharing offers the following sharing options:

• Versioned Data Sharing

  In this type of share, data is shared and published as well-defined, known, as-of-snapshots. At the time of publication, the tool generates and stores the data share as parquet files in the specified bucket. The recipient can directly access the share in the object store. See Share Data Versions Using Object Storage.

• Live Data Sharing

  In this type of share the recipient accesses data directly from the remote Oracle table or view owned by the producer. This type of share gives the recipient the latest data. The advantage of this mode is that the data is up to date as of the time of query. See Share Live Data Using Direct Connection.

For further information on the Data Share tool usage and limitations, see The Data Share Tool.