2 What’s New in this Release
This chapter describes the features, enhancements, and changes made to Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Applications and Analytics (GG for DAA). Oracle updates the release notes periodically after the software release. This document is accurate at the time of publication.
2.1 Release 23ai — July 2024
Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Analytics and Applications (GG for DAA) now supports delivery of change events to Databricks
Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Analytics and Applications (GG for DAA) delivers change events and merge into target tables in Databricks. For more information, see Databricks Event Handler in Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Applications and Analytics Documentation.
GG for DAA supports delivery to Snowflake via Snowpipe streaming API.
The Snowflake Streaming Handler supports
INSERT-only workloads using the Snowpipe
Streaming API, which can result in lower load latencies at a lower
cost for loading data into Snowflake. For more information, see
Snowflake
Streaming Handler in Oracle GoldenGate for
Distributed Applications and Analytics
Documentation.
Improved stage and merge framework
Various improvements were made to the Stage and Merge handlers framework for correctness and resiliency.
Support provided for automatic table creation in the Snowflake handler.
GG for DAA supports creation of target tables in Snowflake based on the incoming/source metadata. For more information, see Using the Snowflake Event Handler in Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Applications and Analytics Documentation.
Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Analytics and Applications (GG for DAA) now supports delivery of CDC changes to Google Pub Sub
Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Analytics and Applications (GG for DAA) delivers CDC changes to Google Pub Sub. For more information, see Google Pub Sub in Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Applications and Analytics Documentation.
Support for delivering change events involving boolean types correctly.
GG for DAA provides support for delivering change events involving boolean types correctly. For more information, see Replicate Data in Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Applications and Analytics Documentation.
Avro formatting based on schema provided by Avro Metadata Provider is now supported in GG for DAA
Users can now create a custom metadata provider (MDP) to map to an existing Avro schema. For more information, see Avro Metadata Provider in Oracle GoldenGate for Distributed Applications and Analytics Documentation.