This Oracle Databases have long been one of the most widely used technologies in the enterprise, but that doesn’t mean enterprises have to run them on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Today Oracle and Google officially announced the general availability of Oracle Database@Google Cloud. The two vendors originally announced that the service was in development on June 11 with few details, but that has since changed. The service is initially available in four Google Cloud regions: US East (Ashburn), US West (Salt Lake City), UK South (London) and Germany Central (Frankfurt). Plans are already in motion to expand this offering to numerous additional regions in North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America in the coming months.
Customers can now use Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Databaseand Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service directly on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Google Cloud data centers. This integration allows organizations to leverage Oracle’s database technology while leveraging Google Cloud’s infrastructure and services. The partnership aims to simplify cloud migration processes and accelerate innovation for customers. By combining Oracle’s database expertise with Google Cloud’s advanced AI capabilities, such as Vertex AI and Gemini Foundation models, organizations can develop new applications and gain faster insights from their data.
“I think the world’s data really runs on Oracle Database, you know, we’re the most popular enterprise database in the world,” Karan Batta, senior vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. “I think it’s really critical, even though we’re a cloud provider, that we give access to every single customer that wants access to data in any cloud of their choice, and so Google is the next step in that.”
Why Oracle Database@Google Cloud is a big deal
Oracle has been steadily expanding the cloud footprint for its namesake database in recent years. The Google partnership follows suit Arrangement with Microsoft which became generally available on June 20.
Batta noted that while the deal with Microsoft is similar to the new Google deployment, the workload types can sometimes be different. With the Google deal, AI is also a major part of the discussion. Customers can build AI applications using Oracle data on Google Cloud. The integration allows customers to leverage Google’s AI services such as Vertex and Gemini to build AI applications using Oracle data.
“Customers coming to us are looking for choice and they want the different technologies they use today to be available in one place,” Amit Zaveri, VP and GM of Platforms at Google Cloud, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview. “I think this news is important because it expands that capability.”
Zaveri noted that Oracle Database is a choice many Google customers have already made. As such it is important for Google to ensure that it is as easy as possible for customers to access and use Oracle technology as part of the Google Cloud experience.
Google Cloud has its fair share of database technology, which was recently updated. The partnership is currently not bi-directional, enabling Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users to directly access Google Cloud databases.
Google data analytics and business intelligence users will be delighted
In addition to AI capabilities, the integration could be a boon for data analytics services such as Big Query on Google Cloud.
Zaveri said the integration makes it easier for customers with significant investments in Oracle databases and applications to leverage Google BigQuery for their data warehousing and reporting needs. They can now seamlessly access their Oracle data through BigQuery.
“Many enterprise applications have an Oracle database in the back end,” Zaveri said. “If you have that and now you want to build a web data warehouse or reporting framework, you’ve probably already decided that BigQuery or Looker should be the analytics platform, we can really do that for you through the same console, environment and We can allow it. Interface, which you could not do earlier and now it can be done easily.
That’s how Oracle Database actually runs in Google Cloud
A major challenge in enabling Oracle Database to run efficiently for enterprise use cases in Google Cloud is the issue of latency. Finally, if the data is not actually in a Google data center there is some latency and potentially a performance hit.
Oracle and Google are pushing the issue.
Batta explained that for the four Google Cloud regions where the service is deployed today, Oracle is expanding OCI’s physical infrastructure into Google data centers. It is a different approach than having an optimized interconnect between two separate data centers.
“Really, where we’re moving from the interconnect, which is long wire, to short wire, because essentially, our infrastructure resides to some degree inside a Google data center,” Batta said.
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