GoldenGate for CDC

Minimum impact on Compute resources Process at Source DB systems (Oracle DB)

Golden Gate Integrated capture uses the database log mining server to access the Oracle redo
stream, with the benefit of being able to automatically switch between different copies of archive logs
or different mirrored versions of the online logs. Thus integrated capture can transparently handle the
absence of a log file caused by disk corruption, hardware failure, or operator error, assuming that
additional copies of the archived and online logs are available. Integrated capture enables faster
filtering of tables. Integrated capture handles point-in-time recovery and RAC integration more
efficiently. It features integrated log management. The Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN)
automatically retains the archive logs that are needed by Extract.

Oracle Golden Gate flexible deployment optionsto capture/extract from source DB systems:
Oracle Golden Gate mine logs to capture changes from the mining DB. The mining database is the
one where the log mining server is deployed.Logs can be mined in one of the 2 flexible ways to
ensure minimal impact on source system

Local deployment: For a local deployment, the source database and the mining database are the
same. The source database is the database for which you want to mine the redo stream to capture
changes, and also where you deploy the log mining server. Because integrated capture is fully
integrated with the database, this mode does not require any special database setup.

Downstream deployment: In a downstream deployment, the source and mining databases are
different databases. You create the log mining server at the downstream database. You configure redo
transport at the source database to ship the redo logs to the downstream mining database for capture
at that location. Using a downstream mining server for capture may be desirable to offload the capture
overhead and any other overhead from transformation or other processing from the production server,
but requires log shipping and other configuration.

Configuration: When using a downstream mining configuration, the source database and mining
database must be of the same platform. No additional licenses are required for intermediate server if it
is used only for mining and no DB is installed on the server for any replication purpose

Performance benefits of GG with Source and Target being Oracle DB

GoldenGate 12c has been further integrated with Oracle DB with features like integrated extract and
coordinated apply process are more closely coupled with Oracle DB to provide faster extraction and
apply of the transaction. Other features like support of various data types in Oracle DB are supported
by GoldenGate out of the box