Oracle is introducing a comprehensive series of enhancements to Oracle AI Database to help customers achieve extreme availability and security for all database applications.
“Oracle Database today powers over 90% of the world’s largest enterprises, and tens of thousands of smaller enterprises, all of which require ultra-high availability and throughput for their mission-critical workloads,” said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Oracle AI Database Technologies, Oracle. “Oracle AI Database 26ai on Exadata now delivers Platinum-tier availability with disaster failover times typically under 30 seconds, including for high-throughput multi-node clusters.”
Oracle Database’s Gold-tier uses Oracle’s Real Application Clusters to transparently scale applications across multiple computers, and to protect from failures of individual computers. It also uses Oracle Active Data Guard to protect against disasters, site failures, and data failures. This Gold-tier availability achieves disaster failover times in seconds for single-computer applications and in low single-digit minutes for high-throughput multi-node clusters.
Customers with Gold-tier availability are upgraded to Platinum-tier availability with disaster failover times typically under 30 seconds, even for cross-region failovers of ultra-high throughput multi-node clusters. Platinum-tier availability requires no application changes and is available for any database workload in all leading clouds as well as on-premises. It is provided at no additional charge by just upgrading the Oracle Database and Exadata software.
Oracle is also introducing Diamond-tier availability for applications that are designed for extreme availability and run on the Exadata Platform. Diamond-tier availability uses logical replication of databases across data centers or regions to very rapidly detect failures and recover from them, even for high-throughput mission-critical workloads.
Diamond-tier availability is implemented using active-active distributed clusters using Oracle GoldenGate or Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database. With Diamond-tier availability, even the most demanding applications such as real-time credit-card processing recover from disasters so quickly that humans don’t perceive any downtime.
Oracle Platinum-tier availability is now available for customers running Oracle Active Data Guard and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Oracle AI Database 26ai and Exadata, without the need for any application changes.
All applications, from simple single-computer workloads to ultra-high throughput ones running on large Oracle RAC clusters of multiple computers, can transparently take advantage of MAA Platinum-tier capabilities. Upgrading to Oracle AI Database 26ai on Exadata enables customers to immediately benefit from much faster failovers and less downtime with no additional effort.
Oracle Diamond-tier availability builds on the capabilities of Platinum-tier by enabling applications that are designed for extreme availability to achieve zero data loss and failover times that are typically under three seconds
In addition to providing extreme availability, mission-critical workloads need to be highly secure. With Oracle AI Database 26ai’s new data security capabilities, customers can stay ahead of emerging threats and protect data across multicloud and on-premises environments.
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