In a world where even milliseconds can make or break a financial transaction, and where AI-driven applications are reshaping customer experiences, Oracle has unveiled a breakthrough for enterprises running high-stakes, globally distributed workloads.
On August 8, 2025, from Austin, Texas, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure—a service built to keep mission-critical and agentic AI applications online, responsive, and compliant with regional regulations, no matter what.
The Always-On Promise
This new offering is engineered for enterprises that cannot afford downtime. By automatically distributing, storing, and synchronizing data across multiple Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions, applications can remain operational even during regional outages. The built-in Raft replication technology ensures zero data loss failover and uninterrupted service.
According to Wei Hu, Senior Vice President, High Availability Technologies at Oracle, the goal was to break the complexity barrier:
“Customers often struggle to deploy and manage distributed databases due to the high cost and complexity of operating large numbers of servers across multiple data centers. Our serverless architecture enables customers of all sizes to meet their diverse requirements at a low cost. Today, we’re providing a mission-critical distributed database to the masses.”
Designed for the Age of Agentic AI
Agentic AI—systems capable of autonomously initiating and completing complex tasks—demands databases that can handle enormous throughput, vector search, and real-time responsiveness. Oracle’s new service addresses these demands head-on:
High performance: Vector search across massive datasets with Exascale’s elastic scalability.
Mission-critical availability: Always-on operations with fault-tolerant architecture and Raft replication.
Data residency compliance: Automated policies for regulated industries like finance and healthcare.
Cost efficiency: Pay-per-use, hyperscale serverless architecture that scales with workload spikes.
Holger Mueller, VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, sees it as a game-changer:
“Oracle is merging extreme AI processing performance with global availability. CIOs can now deploy agentic AI and mission-critical apps globally while meeting local data requirements.”
From Payments to Petabytes
The flexibility of the platform opens doors across industries:
Payments & Trading: Active/Active/Active architecture for real-time transaction processing.
Healthcare & Finance: Local data residency compliance without sacrificing performance.
Retail & Entertainment: Low-latency user experiences via region-proximate data storage.
Manufacturing & Utilities: Petabyte-scale analytics for real-time decision-making.
For PayPal, a long-time Oracle Exadata customer, the upgrade represents a leap forward. Akash Guha, Director of Database Engineering at PayPal, says:
“As our global business grows, we plan to use Oracle’s always-on, serverless architecture to accelerate responses, enable greater application resilience, and lower costs with scalable resources.”
