What is the Same

Area	DAS & RDS
Replication technology	Both use Oracle GoldenGate to replicate data from Retail applications.
Data freshness model	Replication is generally near real time; lag grows with large transactions.
Read-only access to application data	Customers cannot update source application data in either model.
Schema change buffering	Views insulate customers from most base schema changes.
Customer responsibility for extensions	Customers own and maintain their custom objects and code.
Environments	Prod + Stage included, additional ’l NPE’s are optional.