Oracle has officially announced the general availability of its Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, which is designed to simplify the deployment of distributed mission-critical applications across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions worldwide.
According to certain reports, the stated service arrives bearing an ability to automatically distribute, store, and synchronize data across multiple locations. This it does to help applications remain online even during regional outages, while simultaneously helping businesses address data residency requirements.
More on that would reveal how the given technology features a flexible, serverless architecture, which allows you to dynamically scale up or down and meet the needs of changing workloads without complex setup or management. You see, customers with real-time analytics, high-volume transaction processing, and variable agentic AI workloads can reap the benefits of an always-on architecture to lower costs, simplify operations, and expand globally with confidence.
“Providing exceptional customer satisfaction is important to PayPal, so we’ve been using Oracle Exadata for many years to provide lightning-fast response times and mission-critical availability,” said Akash Guha, director of database engineering, PayPal. “As our global business grows, we plan to provide even faster responses by using distributed solutions that are integrated with our core systems of record to provide extreme availability and performance. We look forward to using Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure’s always-on, serverless architecture with built-in Raft replication.”
Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper, we begin the promise of high performance. This translates to how the technology in question enables customers to handle high-volume workloads and vector search across massive data sets, a feat achieved on the back of Exascale’s elastic scalability.
Next up, we have mission-critical availability coming into play. You see, Oracle’s Globally Distributed Exadata Database really goes the distance to empower customers in the context of maintaining always-on operations and fast zero data loss failover across data centers and regional outages, all of it done using a Raft replication and Exascale’s fault-tolerant architecture.
Another detail worth a mention relates to the fact focused on data residency, geared towards helping customers address data residency concerns for storing, accessing, and processing AI vectors and business data with easy-to-use automated data distribution methods.
Moving on, Oracle’s latest brainchild further makes it possible for customers to cost-effectively meet fluctuating demands. Here, the technology deploys agentic AI workloads driven by end-user interactions with a hyperscale, serverless architecture which can be dynamically scaled up and down, as required.
“Customers often struggle to deploy and manage distributed databases due to the high cost and complexity involved in operating large numbers of servers across multiple data centers and regions,” said Wei Hu, senior vice president, High Availability Technologies, Oracle. “Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure’s serverless architecture enables customers of all sizes to meet their diverse requirements at a low cost. Today, we are providing a mission-critical distributed database to the masses.”
Beyond that, we must expand upon the technology’s always-on-databases that help customers meet their needs for extreme availability, using an Active/Active/Active architecture across multiple data centers to support mission-critical use cases.
Oracle’s Globally Distributed Exadata Database also boasts the means to store data in OCI data centers closest to users, thus strengthening responsiveness and user satisfaction.Â
Among other things, Oracle’s solution enjoys petabyte-scale AI and analytics that guide customers to run long-duration AI and analytics workloads on real-time streaming data, all for the purpose of ingesting and processing millions of records per second.Â
Finally, we have a hyperscale OLTP, which paves the way for you to scale databases and better support millions of transactions per second with petabyte-scale data, elastic capacity, and near-instant response times.
“In the age of AI, especially agentic AI, customers need a new approach to allow for vector processing across distributed global applications,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst, Constellation Research. “Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure incorporates Exadata’s extreme performance for AI processing and availability for the core back-end systems that implement agent-initiated tasks, while Exascale’s hyper-elastic and pay-per-use capabilities makes it very cost-effective. With this service from Oracle, CIOs can confidently deploy agentic AI and mission-critical applications globally and meet local data residency requirements.”
