Oracle GoldenGate evolution

GoldenGate Software Inc was founded in 1995. Originating in San Francisco, the company was named after the famous Golden Gate Bridge by its founders, Eric Fish and Todd Davidson. The tried and tested product that emerged quickly became very popular within the financial industry. Originally designed for the fault tolerant Tandem computers, the resilient and fast data replication solution was in demand. The banks initially used GoldenGate software in their ATM networks for sending transactional data from high street machines to mainframe central computers. The data integrity and guaranteed zero data loss is obviously paramount and plays a key factor. The key architectural properties of the product are as follows:

• Data is sent in "real time" with sub-second speed.

• Supports heterogeneous environments across different database and hardware types. "Transaction aware" —maintaining its read-consistent and referential integrity between source and target systems.

• High performance with low impact; able to move large volumes of data very efficiently while maintaining very low lag times and latency.

• Flexible modular architecture.

• Reliable and extremely resilient to failure and data loss. No single point of failure or dependencies, and easy to recover.

Oracle Corporation acquired GoldenGate Software in September 2009. Today there are more than 500 customers around the world using GoldenGate technology for over 4000 solutions, realizing over $100 million in revenue for Oracle.