Oracle launches Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure for AI and critical workloads.
Oracle has rolled out the Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, a service aimed at enterprises needing constant uptime, rapid performance, and adherence to data residency rules for mission-critical and agentic AI applications.
The platform automatically distributes, stores, and synchronises data across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions worldwide. This architecture ensures that applications remain operational during regional outages, with built-in Raft replication enabling zero-data-loss failover and continuous service.
According to Wei Hu, Senior Vice President, High Availability Technologies at Oracle, the new service is designed to simplify a process that has long been resource-intensive.
“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 centres and regions. 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.”
<h2>Built for the agentic AI era</h2>
Agentic AI — systems that can autonomously initiate and complete complex tasks — demands infrastructure capable of high throughput, vector search over massive datasets, and low-latency responses. Oracle’s new database service addresses these needs with:
- High performance: Elastic scalability to handle high-volume workloads and vector searches.
- Mission-critical availability: Always-on operation with fault-tolerant design and Raft replication.
- Data residency compliance: Automated data distribution policies for regulated sectors like finance and healthcare.
- Cost efficiency: Hyperscale, pay-per-use serverless architecture that adjusts to workload spikes.
Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, noted the strategic fit for enterprises:
“In the age of AI, especially agentic AI, customers need a new approach to allow for vector processing across distributed global applications. 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.”
<h2>Industry-wide applications</h2>
The database’s flexibility allows it to serve multiple high-demand scenarios:
Payments and trading: Active/Active/Active architecture for real-time processing in financial markets.
- Healthcare and finance: Local data storage to meet residency rules without sacrificing speed.
- Retail and entertainment: Faster user experiences via region-proximate data hosting.
- Manufacturing and utilities: Petabyte-scale analytics and real-time data ingestion for operational decision-making.
PayPal, a long-time Oracle Exadata user, views the new capabilities as a way to boost both performance and cost-efficiency.
“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 to accelerate responses, enable greater application resilience, and lower costs with scalable resources.”
By combining a globally accessible architecture with AI-ready performance, Oracle is positioning the service as a foundational tool for enterprises that operate across multiple geographies and cannot afford downtime.
