1 Introduction

This is the Release Readiness Guide for version 22.0.000 of Oracle Retail Data Store.

Overview

Oracle Retail Data Store enables retailers to unlock the value of their data through a comprehensive set of tools, enabling virtually unlimited extensibility while abstracting those workloads from those of the original Oracle Retail cloud services. This toolset allows the retailer to create a wide variety of functionality that they can tailor specifically to their own business processes. Examples include custom web services to expose specific data elements, custom integration (inbound and outbound), and custom user interfaces for capturing retailer-specific data.

The core of RDS is a data replication implementation that uses Oracle Golden Gate to replicate application data from Retail applications to a centralized Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) database. The data is kept in sync with the source application database in near-real-time. This replicated data source allows the retailer's extensions to make use of this data without impacting processing running on the source application.

This data is made available through Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) and Application Express (APEX) workspaces. When a retailer subscribes to RDS, they are given the URLs and credentials to access these workspaces.