This chapter contains the requirements when capturing from an Oracle database and replicating to supported target databases.
Pre-requisite: At least the minimum level of supplemental logging must be enabled. Some SharePlex features may require PK/UK supplemental logging to be enabled.
This section contains the requirements for an Oracle database as a source when capturing from an Oracle database and replicating to supported target databases.
The following operating systems are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to an Oracle target database. For a list of supported source and target databases for Oracle capture, see Supported Source and Target Combinations.
SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
Note: SharePlex supports the following operating systems and only where the version matches the Oracle certified platforms. For example, Oracle 19c supports Linux 7 and later, therefore installation of SharePlex on a system with Oracle 19c is supported only on Linux 7 and later.
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows Server 2019 and 2022*
Limitations: For limitations related to Windows platform support, see the Windows-related issues in the Known Issues section.
* Unsupported features on the Windows platform:
PostgreSQL database as a source
Compare/Repair commands for Oracle to PostgreSQL replication
AVRO file format
MariaDB
sp_client utility
SharePlex supports the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c, 21c, and 23AI*.
Notes:
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Steps to update the CLIENT_STATISTICS_LEVEL Database Parameter
To see the current value of CLIENT_STATISTICS_LEVEL, use the following command:
SQL> SHOW PARAMETER CLIENT_STATISTICS_LEVEL;
If the current value is set to TYPICAL, update it to OFF using the following command:
SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET CLIENT_STATISTICS_LEVEL = 'OFF' SCOPE=SPFILE;
To apply the change, restart the database by executing the following commands:
SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;
SQL> STARTUP;
*Conditions of Support for Oracle 23AI:
Oracle 23AI is supported on DBCS, EXACS, and Oracle On-premises Exadata platforms.
On Oracle 23AI, the Copy/Append command is not supported with encrypted tablespaces.
In 23AI, when creating a table with an XMLType column, it is created with a default storage type of TRANSPORTABLE BINARY XML. To enable SharePlex support, change the XMLType column’s storage type to BINARY XML.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:
Enterprise Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition High Performance
Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance
Amazon Web Services:
Microsoft Azure:
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC): Issues on Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer will be tested against Oracle Exadata Cloud Service for reproduction purposes.
Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS): SharePlex only supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature on DBCS EE-HP, DBCS EE-EP, and ExaCS/CC.
Amazon RDS for Oracle: Please see Supported Oracle Source and Target Versions for additional clarification on version compatibility.
This is a list of commonly used Oracle features which SharePlex does not replicate and are not listed elsewhere in this document. Since both Oracle and SharePlex continually change and improve, this list of exclusions cannot be considered complete. Unless an item is stated here as being supported, assume that SharePlex does not replicate it.
| Object/operation/feature | Not supported |
|---|---|
| Oracle operations | Operations that do not appear in the redo logs. This includes any DML or DDL not in the redo logs, and also PL/SQL packages which do not write results to the redo logs, for example, dbms_shared_pool.keep and related packages. |
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dbms_scheduler.create_job |
This object is not supported. |
| Flashback |
SharePlex does not support the Oracle Flashback Table feature. If the SP_REPLICATE_ALL_DDL parameter is enabled (value of 1), SharePlex may try to replicate the flashback DDL, which will return an error. To perform Flashback Table on a table that is in replication, use the following procedures
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| Special characters |
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Notes about open target data type support
Replication of LOB operations generated by dbms_lob are not supported when replicating to non-Oracle targets.
SharePlex does not support the replication of data from Oracle to open targets for the below Extended Data Types:
The following table shows whether specific SharePlex features are supported for replication from Oracle to open targets.
| SharePlex feature | Supported open targets |
|---|---|
| reconcile command (target instantiation) | All |
| Compare/Compare Using and repair/repair using commands* | PostgreSQL |
| copy/copy using and append/append using commands | Not supported |
| Hash horizontally partitioned replication | All |
| Column-based horizontally partitioned replication | All |
| Vertically partitioned replication | All |
| Column mapping | All |
| Key definition | All |
| Build configuration with scripts | Not supported |
| Named queues | All |
| Commit Reduction (feature of Post Enhanced Performance) | All |
| Dependency Checking (feature of Post Enhanced Performance) | Not supported |
| Transformation | Not supported |
| Conflict resolution |
PostgreSQL |
| Peer-to-peer replication (bi-directional) | PostgreSQL |
| Consolidated replication (many to one) | All |
| Broadcast replication (one to many) | All |
| High availability replication (active/passive bi-directional) | PostgreSQL |
| Change tracking target (CDC) | Not supported |
| Data encryption | All |
| Data compression | All |
| SSH | All |
| auth_hosts file | All |
| Monitoring scripts | All |
| SNMP monitoring | All |
| Continue posting on error (SP_OPX_CONT_ON_ERR) | All |
| Suspend on out of sync errors (SP_OPX_OUT_OF_SYNC_SUSPEND) | All |
| Reduced key (SP_OPX_REDUCED_KEY) | All |
| Logical Transaction Rollback on out-of-sync transactions | Not supported |
| HSM: Oracle database wallet key store on external storage using sp_hsm utility | All |
* The Compare and Repair commands for Oracle to PostgreSQL replication are certified for use with Oracle 18c, 19c, and 21c.
This chapter contains the requirements when capturing OLTP compressed data from an Oracle source database and replicating it to a supported target database.
The following operating systems are supported for capture from a supported Oracle database and replication to a supported target database.
SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
For OLTP, SharePlex supports the following operating systems only:
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
SharePlex supports the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c, and 21c for replicating the OLTP compressed data.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to an Oracle or an open target.
Note: Replication to targets with a different character set is supported, with limitations. When posting to open target databases, XML files and JMS, SharePlex supports only UNICODE and US7ASCII on the target, but conversion can be performed by an Oracle client installed on the target system. For full details, see the Preinstallation Checklist in the SharePlex Installation and Setup Guide.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
Direct-path loads (SQL*Loader) (INSERT AND FULL ROLLBACK).
Note: Replication of partial rollbacks of DLOADs is not supported.
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source Oracle table.
SharePlex supports the following table types for DML operations:
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Supported table type* |
Conditions of Support |
|---|---|
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Regular Oracle tables |
None |
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Index-organized tables |
SharePlex does not support:
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Partitioned tables |
None |
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Views |
None |
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Materialized views |
SharePlex does not support replication from a materialized view to a materialized view. SharePlex can replicate the underlying table of a materialized view to a regular target table. |
SharePlex does not support the following table types:
*SharePlex does not support the following for any table type:
SharePlex supports DML operations on secured or compressed objects as described in the following table. See "Conditions of support" following this table for additional information.
| Secured/Compressed Object | Can be replicated to: |
|---|---|
| DML on tables encrypted by Oracle Obfuscation Toolkit | All target types |
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DML on tables with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)1 |
All target types |
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DML on Oracle Label Security (OLS)2 |
All target types |
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DML on compressed objects: Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, HCC3 |
All target types |
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Direct Load (DLOAD) on compressed objects: Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, HCC3 |
All target types |
1. TDE
SharePlex supports Tablespace Encryption and Column Encryption, both source and target.
The SharePlex copy/append command does not support TDE.
TDE is not supported for sources on RDS.
SharePlex only supports the AES and DES encryption algorithms.
2. OLS
By default, SharePlex cannot process rows that are protected by OLS (Oracle Label Security) because users granted DBA privileges (like SharePlex) do not have enough privileges to access those rows. However, if privilege is granted from the OLSSYS user, SharePlex can support OLS. SharePlex was tested under the following OLS configuration:
Note: If the OLS policy data label column is defined as hidden, the data in that column cannot be replicated by SharePlex.
Important: Shareplex does not support OLS policy configuration changes on tables during active replication. Users need to apply these configurations before activating the configuration.
3. Compression
For HCC compression: SharePlex does not support query low compression. Supported types of compression are query high, archive low and archive high.
For Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression: Under certain conditions, Oracle does not provide enough information in the redo log for SharePlex to replicate a DML operation on a OLTP compressed object. Testing of OLTP compressed objects is advised.
SharePlex provides default and optional DDL support.
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Notes: ALTER TABLE to ADD COLUMN and ALTER TABLE to DROP COLUMN are supported on Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, and HCC compressed Oracle objects for replication to all Oracle and open targets. |
SharePlex does not support:
SharePlex provides limited DDL support for replication from Oracle to open targets. The involved objects must be listed in the active configuration file explicitly or with a wildcard. There is no optional DDL support for replication from Oracle to cross platforms.
The default Oracle to open target configuration is represented by the following parameter setting:
SP_OCT_REPLICATE_DDL=3
See "Table Notes" following this table for additional information.
| Supported object | Supported Operation |
|---|---|
| Table and IOT | Truncate1 |
| Alter table add column2 | |
| Alter table drop column |
Table Notes:
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SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Azure Event Hubs, according to the details below.
SharePlex replicates remotely to the Azure Event Hubs service. Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
CentOS Linux 7.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Supported platform as a service: Azure Event Hubs
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to an Azure Event Hubs target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to an Azure Event Hubs target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to File Output, according to the details below.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
NOTE: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
This mapping applies to all targets that receive messages as XML:
| Oracle | XML |
|---|---|
| BINARY_DOUBLE | decimal |
| BINARY_FLOAT | decimal |
| BLOB | base64Binary |
| CHAR | string |
| CLOB | string |
| DATE | dateTime |
| INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND | dayTimeDuration |
| INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH | yearMonthDuration |
| LONG | string |
| NCHAR | string |
| NCLOB | string |
| NUMBER | decimal |
| NVARCHAR2 | string |
| RAW | base64Binary |
| ROWID | string |
| TIMESTAMP | dateTime |
| TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE | dateTimeStamp |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | dateTimeStamp |
| VARCHAR2 | string |
| VARRAY | Post maps the data types in the source VARRAY to the appropriate XML data types. Only certain data types in a VARRAY are supported. See the conditions of support. |
Only the following data types in a VARRAY are supported by SharePlex when replicating to XML output:
See Conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.
This mapping applies to all targets that receive messages as JSON:
| Oracle | JSON |
|---|---|
| BINARY_DOUBLE | Number |
| BINARY_FLOAT | Number |
| BLOB | String containing base64 encoded data |
| CHAR | String |
| CLOB | String |
| DATE | String containing date |
| INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND | String containing interval |
| INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH | String containing interval |
| LONG | String |
| NCHAR | String |
| NCLOB | String |
| NUMBER | Number |
| NVARCHAR2 | String |
| RAW | String containing hex encoded data |
| ROWID | String |
| TIMESTAMP | String containing timestamp |
| TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE | String containing timestamp |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | String containing timestamp |
| VARCHAR2 | String |
Conditions of support: See Conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a File Output target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to a File Output target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to JMS Message Queues, according to the details below.
Local SharePlex installation is supported on the below operating systems:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a JMS Message Queues target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to a JMS Message Queue target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Kafka, according to the details below.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
CentOS Linux 7.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
CentOS Linux 7.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Apache Kafka 3.6.1 and 3.8
Confluent Kafka 7.6.0
Confluent Kafka, along with Schema Registry and AVRO format, supports the following authentication methods:
SASL_PLAINTEXT with PLAIN authentication
Kerberos SASL_PLAINTEXT with GSSAPI authentication
We test and reproduce issues against:
Apache Kafka
Confluent Kafka
NOTE: If you would like to use a different vendor who provides their own Kafka distribution or provides a Kafka compliant interface, you are welcome to do so. From a support perspective, our support and development teams will share any Kafka broker errors that SharePlex receives and also ensure SharePlex itself is working properly to capture data, the target configuration formats in SharePlex are correct, and the SharePlex poster is posting or attempting to post according to the Kafka versions under support. If there are SharePlex issues with Kafka support that can be reproduced on Apache Kafka or otherwise demonstrated to be definitely associated with SharePlex, our team will address those as standard Kafka issues.
Note: SharePlex supports the AVRO format with Confluent Kafka version 7.6.0 and the JDBC connector version confluentinc-kafka-connect-jdbc-10.7.6.
| Oracle | Kafka ( AVRO format) |
|---|---|
| VARCHAR2 | string |
| CHAR | string |
| ROWID | string |
| NUMBER (P, S <= 0) |
P-S < 10 -> int P-S < 19 -> long P-S >= 19 -> decimal (logical) |
| NUMBER (P, S > 0) | decimal (logical) |
| BINARY FLOAT | float |
| BINARY DOUBLE | double |
| DATE | date (logical)/string |
| TIMESTAMP | timestamp-millis (logical)/string |
| TIMESTAMP_TZ | timestamp-millis (logical)/string |
| TIMESTAMP_LTZ | timestamp-millis (logical)/string |
| INTERVAL_YEAR | string |
| INTERVAL_DAY | string |
| RAW | bytes |
| CLOB | string |
| BLOB | bytes |
| LONG | string |
| LONG VARCHAR | string |
| LONG RAW | bytes |
Limitations:
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SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a Kafka target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to a Kafka target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to MariaDB, according to the details below.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
RHEL 7.x and 8.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x and 8.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Limitation: The SP_OPX_THREADS parameter is not supported in MariaDB.
MariaDB 11.4.2
ODBC driver requirement:
mariadb-connector-odbc-3.1.20-1.x86_64
Amazon Web Services: Amazon RDS for MariaDB
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from Oracle to MariaDB:
| Oracle | MariaDB |
|---|---|
| BINARY_DOUBLE 1 | DOUBLE |
| BINARY_FLOAT | DOUBLE |
| BLOB | LONGBLOB |
| CHAR (n) | CHAR (n) |
| CLOB | LONGTEXT |
| DATE | DATETIME (0) |
| LONG | LONGTEXT |
| LONGRAW | LONGBLOB |
| NUMBER | DOUBLE |
| NUMBER (p,0:) | NUMERIC (p,s) |
| NUMBER (p,s) | DOUBLE |
| RAW (n) | VARBINARY (n) |
| TIMESTAMP (7:9) | DATETIME (6) |
| TIMESTAMP (p) | DATETIME (p) |
| VARCHAR2 (n) | VARCHAR (n) |
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a MariaDB target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to a MariaDB target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to MySQL, according to the details below.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
RHEL 7.x and 8.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x and 8.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Limitation: The SP_OPX_THREADS parameter is not supported in MySQL.
MySQL 8.0.26
ODBC driver requirement:
ODBC 8.0.26 for Linux
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from Oracle to MySQL:
| Oracle | MySQL |
|---|---|
| BINARY_DOUBLE 1 | DOUBLE |
| BINARY_FLOAT | DOUBLE |
| BLOB | LONGBLOB |
| CHAR (n) | CHAR (n) |
| CLOB | LONGTEXT |
| DATE | DATETIME (0) |
| LONG | LONGTEXT |
| LONGRAW | LONGBLOB |
| NUMBER | DOUBLE |
| NUMBER (p,0:) | NUMERIC (p,s) |
| NUMBER (p,s) | DOUBLE |
| RAW (n) | VARBINARY (n) |
| TIMESTAMP (7:9) | DATETIME (6) |
| TIMESTAMP (p) | DATETIME (p) |
| VARCHAR2 (n) | VARCHAR (n) |
See Conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a MySQL target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to a MySQL target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Oracle, according to the details below.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
Note: By using remote replication, database running on Solaris SPARC 11.1, 11.2, and 11.3 or Windows 2012, 2012 r2, and 2016 can leverage remote replication to capture and/or post data using SharePlex installed on Solaris SPARC 11.4, or Windows 2019 and 2022 respectively ensuring replication continues without the need for direct installation on the unsupported platform.
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
SharePlex supports the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c, 21c, and 23AI*.
Notes:
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*Conditions of Support for Oracle 23AI:
Oracle 23AI is supported only on DBCS and EXACS platforms.
On Oracle 23AI, the Copy/Append command is not supported with encrypted tablespaces.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition High Performance
Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC): Issues on Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer will be tested against Oracle Exadata Cloud Service for reproduction purposes.
Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS): SharePlex only supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature on DBCS EE-HP, DBCS EE-EP, and ExaCS/CC.
Amazon RDS for Oracle: Please see Supported Oracle Source and Target Versions for additional clarification on version compatibility.
SharePlex supports the following Oracle data types for replication to Oracle targets. See the Conditions of support for additional information.
Note: SharePlex supports columns that are defined as INVISIBLE.
1. ANYDATA
Replication of ANYDATA is supported, except when it contains a UDT or the storage is defined as SecureFile LOB with compression. SecureFile LOB without compression is supported. Only the following data types within ANYDATA are supported by SharePlex:
2. LONG and LOB (BLOB, CLOB)
SharePlex supports SecureFiles LOBs as follows:
3. NCLOB
NCLOBs are not supported by Compare/Repair if the source and target have different character sets.
4. XMLTYPE
SharePlex supports the replication of XMLTYPE stored as CLOB and BINARY. SharePlex does not support XMLTYPE stored as OBJECT RELATIONAL or TRANSPORTABLE BINARY. Additionally, the following applies:
XMLTYPE stored as BINARY is not supported when the storage is defined as SecureFile LOB with compression. SecureFile LOB without compression is supported.
5. User-defined types
SharePlex does not support abstract data types and VARRAYs in a configuration where the SharePlex conflict resolution feature is performed.
NOTE: SharePlex replicates tables with the UDT fields in the base type ONLY. In case of columns containing multiple subtypes, replication is applicable only for base type fields.
6. General
If the precision or size of the target data type is not large enough for the data being replicated, the data may be truncated or rounded by the database when applied.
7. BINARY DOUBLE and BINARY FLOAT
The BINARY DOUBLE and the BINARY FLOAT data types are not supported for the copy command.
8. Extended Data Types
SharePlex provides default and optional DDL support.
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Note: ALTER TABLE to ADD COLUMN and ALTER TABLE to DROP COLUMN are supported on Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, and HCC compressed Oracle objects for replication to all Oracle and open targets. |
SharePlex does not support:
During DDL replication, data containing the ALTER statement related to Oracle extended statistics—'Virtual by User'— is not supported. Oracle also does not recommend to use the extended stastistics 'Virtual by User'.
SharePlex supplies default and optional DDL replication for objects whose names are listed in the configuration file explicitly or by wildcard. See "Conditions of support" following this table for additional information.
For details about the controlling parameter, see the SharePlex Reference Guide.
| Supported object | Supported DDL Operation |
Enabled by default? |
Controlling parameter |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Table and IOT (when they exist in the source at the time of configuration activation) |
Truncate Alter to add, drop, modify columns Alter to add, modify, drop, split, coalesce, move, truncate, exchange partition or subpartition1 Drop Table |
Yes |
SP_OCT_REPLICATE_DDL=3 |
|
Table and IOT |
Create Create as Select2 |
Yes |
SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1 |
| Table | Alter Table Rename | Yes | SP_OCT_DDL_UPDATE_CONFIG=1 |
| Index |
Create Alter Drop |
Yes |
SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1 |
|
Materialized View3 |
Create Drop |
No |
SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1 and SP_OCT_AUTOADD_MVIEW=1 and SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY=8.6.2 or higher |
|
Sequences4 |
Create, Drop |
No |
SP_OCT_AUTOADD_ENABLE=1 and SP_OCT_AUTOADD_SEQ=1 and SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY=8.6.3 or higher |
|
Trigger |
Create, Drop |
No |
SP_OCT_REPLICATE_TRIGGER=1 |
|
Synonym |
Create, Drop |
No |
SP_OCT_REPLICATE_SYNONYM=1 |
| Grant5 | Create, Drop |
No |
SP_OCT_REPLICATE_GRANT=1 |
For CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW the following applies:
To replicate sequences, the supplemental logging of primary and unique keys must be enabled at the database level, or you must enable supplemental logging for primary keys on the sys.seq$ table.
Amazon RDS restricts DBA users from issuing the GRANT command. Because SharePlex runs as the DBA user, SharePlex cannot replicate GRANT to or from an RDS database.
SharePlex provides expanded DDL support for Oracle objects that are not listed in the configuration file. SharePlex replicates the DDL statements for these objects, but does not maintain synchronization of the objects through DML replication. Expanded DDL replication is optional and is enabled with the following parameter setting:
SP_OCT_REPLICATE_ALL_DDL=1
Note: Expanded DDL replication supports not only tables and sequences but also a wide range of other objects such as procedures, functions, users, and views, which are not part of replication. Some of these objects may have underlying objects that are in replication. In those cases, Expanded DDL replication applies to the underlying objects in replication, as well as to the object that is not in replication.
See "Table Notes" following this table for additional information.
| Supported object | Supported Operation |
|---|---|
| Table and IOT | Create table |
| Create table as select | |
| Alter table add column | |
| Alter table drop column | |
| Drop table | |
| Truncate | |
| Comment on table | |
| Comment on columns | |
| Associate Statistics | |
| Disassociate Statistics | |
| Cluster | Create cluster |
| Crop cluster | |
| Sequence | Create |
| Drop | |
| Alter | |
|
Partition/ Subpartition |
Add |
| Split | |
| Merge | |
| Drop | |
| Modify | |
| Coalesce | |
| Exchange | |
| Move | |
| Truncate | |
| Rename | |
| Set | |
| Index | Create |
| Alter | |
| Drop | |
| View | Create |
| Alter | |
| Drop | |
| Comment on view | |
| Synonym | Create |
| Drop | |
| Directory1 | Create |
| Drop | |
| User-defined type | Create type |
| Alter type | |
| Drop type | |
| Create type body | |
| Drop type body | |
| Stored procedure | Create |
| Alter | |
| Drop | |
| Stored function | Create |
| Alter | |
| Drop | |
| Package | Create package |
| Create package body | |
| Alter package | |
| Alter package body | |
| Drop package | |
| Drop package body | |
| User | Create user |
| Alter user | |
| Drop user | |
| Grant1 | |
| Revoke | |
| Role | Create role |
| Alter role | |
| Drop role | |
| Grant1 | |
| Revoke |
| Table Notes:
Amazon RDS restricts DBA users from issuing certain commands on an Amazon RDS database instance. Because SharePlex runs as the DBA user, SharePlex cannot replicate the following commands to or from an RDS database:
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SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to an Oracle target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to PostgreSQL, according to the details below.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
PostgreSQL 13.4, 13.6, 14.1, 15.x, 16, and 17
Enterprise Database (EDB) 15.x, 16
Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL 15 SP2
AlloyDB Omni 15.5.x
ODBC drivers for Community Edition: postgresql13-odbc-13.02.0000, postgresql14-odbc-13.02.0000,postgresql15-odbc-16.00.0000, and postgresql16-odbc-16.00.0000
ODBC drivers for Enterprise Edition (EDB): edb-odbc-13.02.0000, edb-odbc-16.00.0000.01
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Compute (IaaS) Virtual Machines and Bare Metal
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from Oracle to PostgreSQL:
| Oracle | PostgreSQL |
|---|---|
| BINARY_DOUBLE | DOUBLE PRECISION |
| BINARY_FLOAT | REAL |
| CHAR (n) | CHAR (n) |
| CHAR (n CHAR) | CHAR (n) |
| CLOB | TEXT |
| DATE | DATE |
| DATE | TIMESTAMP (0) |
| LONG | TEXT |
| NCHAR (n) | CHAR (n) |
| NCLOB | TEXT |
| NUMBER |
NUMERIC / DOUBLE PRECISION |
| NUMBER(p) | NUMERIC (p) |
| NUMBER (p,s) | NUMERIC (p,s) |
| NVARCHAR2 (n) | VARCHAR (n) |
| TIMESTAMP (7:9) | TIMESTAMP (6) |
| TIMESTAMP (p) | TIMESTAMP (p) |
| TIMESTAMP (7:9) WITH TIME ZONE | TIMESTAMP (6) WITH TIME ZONE |
| TIMESTAMP (p) WITH TIME ZONE | TIMESTAMP (p) WITH TIME ZONE |
| TIMESTAMP (7:9) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE | TIMESTAMP (6) |
| TIMESTAMP (p) WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE | TIMESTAMP (p) |
| VARCHAR2 (n) | VARCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR2 (n CHAR) | VARCHAR (n) |
| BLOB | BYTEA |
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a PostgreSQL target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to a PostgreSQL target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Snowflake, according to the details below.
SharePlex replicates remotely to Snowflake. Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Note: SharePlex Snowflake supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Snowflake 8.38.2
ODBC driver requirement for Linux: Snowflake 3.1.4 and above
ODBC driver requirement for Windows: From Snowflake 3.1.4 to Snowflake 3.2 version
Microsoft Azure
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from Oracle to Snowflake:
| Oracle | Snowflake |
|---|---|
| CLOB | TEXT |
| NUMBER | INT, INTEGER, NUMBER |
| CHAR(n) | VARCHAR(n) |
| CLOB | VARCHAR(n) |
| NCHAR | CHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR2(n) | VARCHAR(n) |
| CLOB | VARCHAR(n) |
| NCLOB | TEXT |
| CLOB | VARCHAR(n) |
| LONG | TEXT |
| BLOB | BINARY, VARBINARY |
| RAW(n) | VARBINARY |
| LONGRAW | VARBINARY |
| BINARY_FLOAT | REAL |
| NUMBER | SMALLINT |
| NUMBER | BIGINT |
| NUMBER | NUMERIC, DECIMAL |
| DATE | DATE |
| BINARY_DOUBLE | DOUBLE PRECISION |
| TIMESTAMP | TIMESTAMP |
| TIMESTAMP_TZ | TIMESTAMP_TZ |
Note: It is anticipated that the Snowflake DB's default "HEX" format for binary type will be maintained for Oracle binary to Snowflake binary data type replication. Since source Oracle DB binary data is stored only in "HEX" format, Shareplex does not guarantee data integrity for any other format.
Char(n) data type - In Oracle, Char(n) is a fixed-size data type. If you insert char data with a length less than "n" into the "Char(n)" column, the remaining slots (n - length) are padded with space to occupy the complete "n" memory positions. Snowflake uses VARCHAR(n) for char storage since Snowflake lacks a comparable fixed-length character data type and only saves char data up to its length. Live replication will ensure that char column data is correctly copied. However, if users are manually inserting data into Snowflake for the equivalent of a Char(n) Oracle column, then the user will need to handle padding as well to occupy the full "n" length so that data will be in sync in both the source and target DB.
Binary & Text data types - Snowflake Binary & Text data types have size limitation of 8 MB, so Oracle’s advance Data type replication will be restricted to max 8 MB size limit of equivalent counterpart. Refer table below.
| Oracle Data type | Max Size | Snowflake Data type | Max Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG | 2 GB | TEXT | 8 MB of unicode chars |
| CLOB | 4 GB | TEXT | 8 MB of unicode chars |
| LONGRAW | 2 GB | BINARY or VARBINARY | 8 MB |
| BLOB | 4 GB | BINARY or VARBINARY | 8 MB |
See Conditions of support for the additional conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a Snowflake target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables when replicating data from an Oracle source to the Snowflake target:
Singular and bulk operation - Insert with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Update with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Delete with key(s)/ non key(s)
| Limitations:
The following DML operations related limitations are observed while replicating data from Oracle to Snowflake:
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For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex does not support DDL operations and objects when replicating data from an Oracle source to a Snowflake target.
SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to SQL Server, according to the details below.
The following operating systems are supported for SQL Server database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022
ODBC driver requirement: ODBC 17.10.1.1-1 and 18.3.2.1-1
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine
Microsoft Azure
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from Oracle to SQL Server:
| Oracle | SQL Server |
|---|---|
| ANYDATA | VARIENT |
| BINARY_DOUBLE | FLOAT (53) |
| BINARY_FLOAT | FLOAT (24) |
| BLOB | VARBINARY (MAX) |
| CHAR (n) | CHAR (n) |
| CHAR (n CHAR) | CHAR (n) |
| CLOB | VARCHAR (MAX) |
| DATE | DATETIME2 (7) |
| LONG | VARCHAR (MAX) |
| LONGRAW | VARBINARY (MAX) |
| NCHAR (n) | NCHAR (n) |
| NCLOB | NVARCHAR (MAX) |
| NUMBER | FLOAT (53) |
| NUMBER (p,0:) | NUMERIC (p,s) |
| NUMBER (p,0:)* | DECIMAL |
| NUMBER (p,s) | FLOAT (53) |
| NVARCHAR2 (n) | NVARCHAR (n) |
| RAW (n) | VARBINARY (n) |
| TIMESTAMP (8:9) | DATETIME2 (7) |
| TIMESTAMP (p) | DATETIME2 (p) |
| TIMESTAMP (8:9) WITH TIME ZONE | DATETIMEOFFSET (7) |
| TIMESTAMP (p) WITH TIME ZONE | DATETIMEOFFSET (p) |
| VARCHAR2 (n) | VARCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR2 (n CHAR) | VARCHAR (n) |
Conditions of support:
NUMBER (P, 0) - DECIMAL: If we add a new column with the Number data type in the Oracle source, the new column will be replicated with the Numeric data type to the SQL Server target.
See Conditions of support for the additional conditions for the above-mentioned supported data types.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to an SQL Server target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to an SQL Server target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.
This chapter contains the requirements when capturing from a PostgreSQL database and replicating to supported target databases.
This section contains the requirements for a PostgreSQL database as a source when capturing from a PostgreSQL database and replicating to supported target databases.
The following operating systems are supported for capture from a supported PostgreSQL database and replication to supported target database. For a list of supported source and target databases for PostgreSQL capture, see Supported Source and Target Combinations.
SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Supported operating systems via local installation
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Ubuntu 22.04
PostgreSQL 13.x, 14.x, 15.x, 16, and 17
Enterprise Database (EDB) 15.x, 16
Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL 15 SP2
AlloyDB Omni 15.5.x
ODBC drivers for Community Edition: postgresql13-odbc-13.02.0000, postgresql14-odbc-13.02.0000,postgresql15-odbc-16.00.0000, and postgresql16-odbc-16.00.0000
ODBC drivers for Enterprise Edition (EDB): edb-odbc-13.02.0000 and edb-odbc-16.00.0000.01
Amazon Web Services:
Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora
Microsoft Azure:
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Azure Flexible Server
Google Cloud Platform:
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
The following table shows whether specific SharePlex features are supported for replication from PostgreSQL to Oracle and open targets .
| SharePlex feature | Supported targets |
|---|---|
| reconcile command (target instantiation) | Oracle, PostgreSQL |
| compare/compare using and repair/repair using commands | PostgreSQL |
| copy/copy using and append/append using commands | Not supported |
| Hash horizontally partitioned replication | PostgreSQL |
| Column-based horizontally partitioned replication | PostgreSQL |
| Vertically partitioned replication | PostgreSQL, Oracle |
| Column mapping | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Key definition | PostgreSQL, Oracle |
| Build configuration with scripts | Not supported |
| Named queues | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Commit Reduction (feature of Post Enhanced Performance) | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Dependency Checking (feature of Post Enhanced Performance) | Not supported |
| Transformation | Oracle |
| Conflict resolution |
PostgreSQL, Oracle |
| Peer-to-peer replication (bi-directional) | PostgreSQL, Oracle |
| Consolidated replication (many to one) | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Broadcast replication (one to many) | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| High availability replication (active/passive bi-directional) | Not supported |
| Change tracking target (CDC) | Not supported |
| Data encryption | Not supported |
| Data compression | Not supported |
| SSH | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| auth_hosts file | Not supported |
| Monitoring scripts | Not supported |
| SNMP monitoring | Not supported |
| Continue posting on error (SP_OPX_CONT_ON_ERR) | PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Suspend on out of sync errors (SP_OPX_OUT_OF_SYNC_SUSPEND) | PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Reduced key (SP_OPX_REDUCED_KEY) | PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Logical Transaction Rollback on out-of-sync transactions | Not supported |
| Tables without key1 | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
| Special characters2 | PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake |
Conditions of support:
Data inconsistency is likely to occur in replication or compare-repair processes when SharePlex replication involves tables containing non-key columns with duplicate data.
SharePlex supports special characters like hyphen (-), underscore (_), and plus (+) in PostgreSQL database names, as well as a dot (.), but other PostgreSQL objects, such as column names, do not support all special characters.
The table below presents information on the metrics that are supported and not supported for physical and logical slots in on-premises and PostgreSQL Database as a Service environments.
Note: SharePlex supports logical replication with pgoutput plugin only.
| SharePlex Features | PostgreSQL On-Prem/Cloud VM/EDB (Enterprise Database) | PGDB as a Service AWS- RDS and Aurora, Azure Flexi server | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Replication | Logical Replication (pgoutput plugin) | Logical Replication (pgoutput plugin) | |
| Activate with LSN | Supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| HA Cluster Replication with failover | Applicable with On-prem PostgreSQL database CrunchyData* | Not supported | Applicable only with Azure Flexi server using the pg_failover_slots extension; it is not supported with AWS-RDS and Aurora. |
| Horizontal and Vertical Partitioning | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Utilities and Commands | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Database level Table Partitioning | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Bi-Directional Replication | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| DDL Support | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Replication Performance | No Lag | Minimal Lag | Minimal Lag |
| Insert using PostgreSQL Copy command | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
* The HA Cluster Replication with Failover feature is not supported with PostgreSQL Enterprise Database (EDB).
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LIMITATIONS: The following limitations are observed related to the TRUNCATE operation:
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SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL to Kafka, according to the details below.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Apache Kafka 3.6.1 and 3.8
Confluent Kafka 7.6
We test and reproduce issues against:
Apache Kafka
Confluent Kafka
NOTE: If you would like to use a different vendor who provides their own Kafka distribution or provides a Kafka compliant interface, you are welcome to do so. From a support perspective, our support and development teams will share any Kafka broker errors that SharePlex receives and also ensure SharePlex itself is working properly to capture data, the target configuration formats in SharePlex are correct, and the SharePlex poster is posting or attempting to post according to the Kafka versions under support. If there are SharePlex issues with Kafka support that can be reproduced on Apache Kafka or otherwise demonstrated to be definitely associated with SharePlex, our team will address those as standard Kafka issues.
XML format
For XML supported data type information, see XML format supported data types.
JSON format
For JSON supported data type information, see JSON format supported data types.
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL to Kafka in XML format:
| PostgreSQL | Kafka (XML format) |
|---|---|
| SMALLINT | Decimal |
| INT | Decimal |
| BIGINT | Decimal |
| REAL | Decimal |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | Decimal |
| NUMERIC | Decimal |
| CHAR | String |
| VARCHAR | String |
| TEXT | String |
| BYTEA | Base64Binary |
| DATE | DateTime |
| TIME | Time |
| TIME WITH TIME ZONE | Time |
| TIMESTAMP | DateTime |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | DateTimeStamp |
| BOOLEAN | String |
| JSON/JSONB | String |
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL to Kafka in JSON format:
| PostgreSQL | Kafka (JSON format) |
|---|---|
| SMALLINT | Number |
| INT | Number |
| BIGINT | Number |
| REAL | Number |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | Number |
| NUMERIC | Number |
| CHAR | String |
| VARCHAR | String |
| TEXT | String |
| BYTEA | String containing base64 encoded data |
| DATE | String containing date |
| TIME | String containing time |
| TIME WITH TIME ZONE | String containing time |
| TIMESTAMP | String containing timestamp |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | String containing timestamp |
| BOOLEAN | String |
| JSON/JSONB | String |
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL source to a kafka target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL source to a Kafka target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL to Oracle, according to the details below.
The following operating systems are supported from PostgreSQL to Oracle database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Local SharePlex installation is supported on the below platforms:
AIX 7.3
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
CentOS Linux 7.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows 2019 and 2022*
*Note: Compare and Repair commands are not supported for PostgreSQL or Oracle on the Windows platform.
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
AIX 7.3
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
CentOS Linux 7.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2019 and 2022, are supported via remote replication.
Oracle 19c, 21c, and 23AI*
*Conditions of Support for Oracle 23AI:
Oracle 23AI is supported on DBCS, EXACS, and Oracle On-premises Exadata platforms.
On Oracle 23AI, the Copy/Append command is not supported with encrypted tablespaces.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition High Performance
Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
UTF 8
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL to Oracle:
| PostgreSQL | Oracle |
|---|---|
| INT | NUMBER / INT |
| REAL | BINARY_FLOAT / NUMBER |
| SMALLINT | NUMBER |
| BIGINT | NUMBER |
| NUMERIC | NUMBER |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | BINARY_DOUBLE / NUMBER |
| CHAR(1:2000) | CHAR(n) |
| CHAR(2001:) | CLOB |
| CHAR(1:1000) | NCHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR(1:4000) | VARCHAR2(n) |
| VARCHAR(4001:) | CLOB |
| VARCHAR | CLOB |
| VARCHAR(1:2000) | NVARCHAR2(n) |
| TEXT | CLOB / NCLOB |
| DATE | DATE |
| TIMESTAMP(0) | DATE |
| TIMESTAMP(0) | TIMESTAMP(0) |
| TIMESTAMP | TIMESTAMP / TIMESTAMP [(fractional_seconds_precision)] WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE |
| BOOLEAN | CHAR (1)* |
| BYTEA | BLOB |
*NOTE: For PostgreSQL Physical or Logical replication, BOOLEAN values will be replicated as 1/0 in a CHAR(1) column on the Oracle target.
SharePlex supports the following PostgreSQL data types for replication from PostgreSQL to Oracle when conflict resolution is configured:
VARCHAR
SMALLINT
INT
BIGINT
NUMERIC
DATE
CHAR
TIMESTAMP(0)
TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP WITH THE TIME ZONE
TIME
TIME WITH TIME ZONE
BOOLEAN
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL source to an Oracle target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
Singular and bulk operation - Insert
Singular and bulk operation - Update with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Delete with key(s)
Above operations with rollback/savepoint
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source PostgreSQL table.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL source to an Oracle target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL , according to the details below.
Local SharePlex installation is supported on the following platforms:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
PostgreSQL 13.x, 14.x, 15.x, 16, and 17
Enterprise Database (EDB) 15.x, 16
Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL 15 SP2
AlloyDB Omni 15.5.x
ODBC drivers for Community Edition: postgresql13-odbc-13.02.0000, postgresql14-odbc-13.02.0000,postgresql15-odbc-16.00.0000, and postgresql16-odbc-16.00.0000
ODBC drivers for Enterprise Edition (EDB): edb-odbc-13.02.0000 and edb-odbc-16.00.0000.01
Amazon Web Services:
Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora
Microsoft Azure:
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Azure Flexible Server
Google Cloud Platform:
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
UTF 8
SharePlex PostgreSQL supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL:
|
Limitations:
|
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL source to a PostgreSQL target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source PostgreSQL table.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL source to a PostgreSQL target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL to Snowflake, according to the details below.
The following operating systems are supported for capture from a PostgreSQL database and replication to a Snowflake target database. SharePlex Snowflake supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
SharePlex replicates remotely to Snowflake. Replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Snowflake 8.38.2
ODBC driver requirement: Snowflake 3.1.4 and above
Microsoft Azure
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL to Snowflake:
| PostgreSQL | Snowflake |
|---|---|
| TEXT | TEXT |
| INT | INT,INTEGER,NUMBER |
| CHAR(1:2000) | VARCHAR(n) |
| CHAR(2001:) | VARCHAR(n) |
| CHAR(n) | CHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR(1:4000) | VARCHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR(4001:) | VARCHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR | VARCHAR(n) |
| REAL | REAL |
| SMALLINT | SMALLINT |
| BIGINT | BIGINT |
| NUMERIC (whole number without fraction) | NUMERIC, DECIMAL |
| NUMERIC (fractional number) | FLOAT |
| DATE | DATE |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | DOUBLE PRECISION |
| TIMESTAMP | TIMESTAMP |
| TIMESTAMP_TZ | TIMESTAMP_TZ |
| BOOLEAN | BOOLEAN |
| TIME | TIME |
Char(n) data type - In PostgreSQL, Char(n) is a fixed-size data type. If you insert char data with a length less than "n" into the "Char(n)" column, the remaining slots (n - length) are padded with space to occupy the complete "n" memory positions. Snowflake uses VARCHAR(n) for char storage since Snowflake lacks a comparable fixed-length character data type and only saves char data up to its length. Live replication will ensure that char column data is correctly copied. However, if users are manually inserting data into Snowflake for the equivalent of a Char(n) PostgreSQL column, then the user will need to handle padding as well to occupy the full "n" length so that data will be in sync in both the source and target database.
Text data types - Snowflake Text data types have size limitation of 8 MB, so PostgreSQL’s TEXT data type replication will be restricted to max 8 MB size limit of equivalent counterpart. Refer table below.
| PostgreSQL Data type | Max Size | Snowflake Data type | Max Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEXT | unlimited | TEXT | 8 MB of unicode chars |
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an PostgreSQL source to a Snowflake target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables when replicating data from an PostgreSQL source to the Snowflake target:
Singular and bulk operation - Insert with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Update with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Delete with key(s)/ non key(s)
| Limitations:
The following DML operations related limitations are observed while replicating data from PostgreSQL to Snowflake:
|
For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL source to a Snowflake target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL to SQL Server, according to the details below.
The following operating systems are supported for SQL Server database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
RHEL 7.x and 8.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, and 8.x
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2019 and 2022, are supported via remote replication.
SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022
ODBC driver requirement: ODBC 17.10.1.1-1 and 18.3.2.1-1
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL to SQL Server:
| PostgreSQL | SQL Server |
|---|---|
| INT | INT |
| REAL | REAL |
| SMALLINT | SMALLINT |
| BIGINT | BIGINT |
| NUMERIC / DECIMAL | NUMERIC / DECIMAL |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | FLOAT |
| CHAR (1:8000) | CHAR(n) |
| CHAR (8001:) | VARCHAR (MAX) |
| CHAR (1:2000) | NCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR (1:8000) | VARCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR (8001:) | VARCHAR (MAX) |
| VARCHAR(1:2000) | NVARCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR | VARCHAR (MAX) / TEXT |
| TEXT | TEXT / NTEXT / VARCHAR(MAX) |
| DATE | DATE |
| TIMESTAMP (p) | DATETIME2 (p) |
| TIMESTAMP | DATETIME2 |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | DATETIMEOFFSET |
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL source to an SQL Server target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source PostgreSQL table.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL source to an SQL Server target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
This chapter contains the requirements when capturing from a PostgreSQL database and replicating to supported target databases.
SharePlex supports replication for the PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source, according to the details below.
Supported source operating systems via remote capture:.
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Supported target operating systems remote replication:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Amazon Web Services:
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora
Microsoft Azure:
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Google Cloud Platform:
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Alloy DB
Note: PostgreSQL Database as a Service supports only logical replication.
PostgreSQL 13.x , 14.x, 15.x, 16
ODBC drivers for Community Edition: postgresql13-odbc-13.02.0000, postgresql14-odbc-13.02.0000,postgresql15-odbc-16.00.0000, and postgresql16-odbc-16.00.0000
CHAR
VARCHAR
SMALLINT
INT
BIGINT
NUMERIC
REAL
DOUBLE PRECISION
DATE
TIMESTAMP [p]
TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP [p] [WITH TIME ZONE]
TEXT
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to a PostgreSQL target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source PostgreSQL table.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to a PostgreSQL target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Kafka, according to the details below.
Supported source operating systems via remote capture:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Apache Kafka 3.6.1 and 3.8
Confluent Kafka 7.6
We test and reproduce issues against:
Apache Kafka
Confluent Kafka
NOTE: If you would like to use a different vendor who provides their own Kafka distribution or provides a Kafka compliant interface, you are welcome to do so. From a support perspective, our support and development teams will share any Kafka broker errors that SharePlex receives and also ensure SharePlex itself is working properly to capture data, the target configuration formats in SharePlex are correct, and the SharePlex poster is posting or attempting to post according to the Kafka versions under support. If there are SharePlex issues with Kafka support that can be reproduced on Apache Kafka or otherwise demonstrated to be definitely associated with SharePlex, our team will address those as standard Kafka issues.
XML format
For XML supported data type information, see XML format supported data types.
JSON format
For JSON supported data type information, see JSON format supported data types.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to a Kafka target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
SharePlex does not support DDL operations and objects when replicating data from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to a Kafka target.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Oracle, according to the details below.
The following operating systems are supported from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Oracle database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Local SharePlex installation is supported on the below platforms:
AIX 7.3
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
CentOS Linux 7.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2019 and 2022, are supported via remote replication.
Oracle 19c, 21c, and 23AI*
*Conditions of Support for Oracle 23AI:
Oracle 23AI is supported on DBCS, EXACS, and Oracle On-premises Exadata platforms.
On Oracle 23AI, the Copy/Append command is not supported with encrypted tablespaces.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Enterprise Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition High Performance
Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
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SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Oracle:
| PostgreSQL | Oracle |
|---|---|
| INT | NUMBER / INT |
| REAL | BINARY_FLOAT / NUMBER |
| SMALLINT | NUMBER |
| BIGINT | NUMBER |
| NUMERIC | NUMBER |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | BINARY_DOUBLE / NUMBER |
| CHAR(1:2000) | CHAR(n) |
| CHAR(2001:) | CLOB |
| CHAR(1:1000) | NCHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR(1:4000) | VARCHAR2(n) |
| VARCHAR(4001:) | CLOB |
| VARCHAR | CLOB |
| VARCHAR(1:2000) | NVARCHAR2(n) |
| TEXT | CLOB / NCLOB |
| DATE | DATE |
| TIMESTAMP(0) | DATE |
| TIMESTAMP(0) | TIMESTAMP(0) |
| TIMESTAMP | TIMESTAMP / TIMESTAMP [(fractional_seconds_precision)] WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE |
| BOOLEAN | CHAR (1)* |
| BYTEA | BLOB |
*NOTE: For PostgreSQL Physical or Logical replication, BOOLEAN values will be replicated as 1/0 in a CHAR(1) column on the Oracle target.
SharePlex supports the following PostgreSQL data types for replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Oracle when conflict resolution is configured:
VARCHAR
SMALLINT
INT
BIGINT
NUMERIC
DATE
CHAR
TIMESTAMP(0)
TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP WITH THE TIME ZONE
TIME
TIME WITH TIME ZONE
BOOLEAN
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service to an Oracle target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
Singular and bulk operation - Insert
Singular and bulk operation - Update with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Delete with key(s)
Above operations with rollback/savepoint
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source PostgreSQL table.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to an Oracle target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to PostgreSQL, according to the details below.
Local SharePlex installation is supported on the following platforms:
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
AIX 7.3
CentOS Linux 7.x
HP-UX 11.31 Itanium
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
Oracle Solaris x86 11.4
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x
Ubuntu 22.04
Windows Server 2019 and 2022
Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
PostgreSQL 13.x , 14.x, 15.x, 16, and 17
Enterprise Database (EDB) 15.x and 16
Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL 15 SP2
AlloyDB Omni 15.5.x
ODBC drivers for Community Edition: postgresql13-odbc-13.02.0000, postgresql14-odbc-13.02.0000,postgresql15-odbc-16.00.0000, and postgresql16-odbc-16.00.0000
ODBC drivers for Enterprise Edition (EDB): edb-odbc-13.02.0000 and edb-odbc-16.00.0000.01
Amazon Web Services:
Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora
Microsoft Azure:
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Azure Flexible Server
Google Cloud Platform:
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
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SharePlex PostgreSQL supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to PostgreSQL:
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service to a PostgreSQL target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source PostgreSQL table.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to a PostgreSQL target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Snowflake, according to the details below.
The following operating systems are supported for capture from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service and replication to a Snowflake target database. SharePlex Snowflake supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
SharePlex replicates remotely to Snowflake. Replication from the following operating systems is supported:
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Snowflake 8.38.2
ODBC driver requirement: Snowflake 3.1.4 and above
Microsoft Azure
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Snowflake:
| PostgreSQL | Snowflake |
|---|---|
| TEXT | TEXT |
| INT | INT,INTEGER,NUMBER |
| CHAR(1:2000) | VARCHAR(n) |
| CHAR(2001:) | VARCHAR(n) |
| CHAR(n) | CHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR(1:4000) | VARCHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR(4001:) | VARCHAR(n) |
| VARCHAR | VARCHAR(n) |
| REAL | REAL |
| SMALLINT | SMALLINT |
| BIGINT | BIGINT |
| NUMERIC (whole number without fraction) | NUMERIC, DECIMAL |
| NUMERIC (fractional number) | FLOAT |
| DATE | DATE |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | DOUBLE PRECISION |
| TIMESTAMP | TIMESTAMP |
| TIMESTAMP_TZ | TIMESTAMP_TZ |
| BOOLEAN | BOOLEAN |
| TIME | TIME |
Char(n) data type - In PostgreSQL, Char(n) is a fixed-size data type. If you insert char data with a length less than "n" into the "Char(n)" column, the remaining slots (n - length) are padded with space to occupy the complete "n" memory positions. Snowflake uses VARCHAR(n) for char storage since Snowflake lacks a comparable fixed-length character data type and only saves char data up to its length. Live replication will ensure that char column data is correctly copied. However, if users are manually inserting data into Snowflake for the equivalent of a Char(n) PostgreSQL column, then the user will need to handle padding as well to occupy the full "n" length so that data will be in sync in both the source and target database.
Text data types - Snowflake Text data types have size limitation of 8 MB, so PostgreSQL’s TEXT data type replication will be restricted to max 8 MB size limit of equivalent counterpart. Refer table below.
| PostgreSQL Data type | Max Size | Snowflake Data type | Max Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| TEXT | unlimited | TEXT | 8 MB of unicode chars |
See Conditions of support for the additional conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an PostgreSQL Database as a Service to a Snowflake target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables when replicating data from an PostgreSQL Database as a Service to the Snowflake target:
Singular and bulk operation - Insert with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Update with key(s)/ non key(s)
Singular and bulk operation - Delete with key(s)/ non key(s)
| Limitations:
The following DML operations related limitations are observed while replicating data from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to Snowflake:
|
For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to a Snowflake target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
SharePlex supports replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to SQL Server, according to the details below.
The following operating systems are supported for SQL Server database. SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.
Supported operating systems via local installation:
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:
Oracle Linux 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
Rocky Linux 8.x
Supported target operating systems via remote replication:
All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2019 and 2022, are supported via remote replication.
SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022
ODBC driver requirement: ODBC 17.10.1.1-1 and 18.3.2.1-1
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance
SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from PostgreSQL Database as a Service to SQL Server:
| PostgreSQL | SQL Server |
|---|---|
| INT | INT |
| REAL | REAL |
| SMALLINT | SMALLINT |
| BIGINT | BIGINT |
| NUMERIC / DECIMAL | NUMERIC / DECIMAL |
| DOUBLE PRECISION | FLOAT |
| CHAR (1:8000) | CHAR(n) |
| CHAR (8001:) | VARCHAR (MAX) |
| CHAR (1:2000) | NCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR (1:8000) | VARCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR (8001:) | VARCHAR (MAX) |
| VARCHAR(1:2000) | NVARCHAR (n) |
| VARCHAR | VARCHAR (MAX) / TEXT |
| TEXT | TEXT / NTEXT / VARCHAR(MAX) |
| DATE | DATE |
| TIMESTAMP (p) | DATETIME2 (p) |
| TIMESTAMP | DATETIME2 |
| TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE | DATETIMEOFFSET |
SharePlex supports DML operations on tables. DML can be replicated from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service to an SQL Server target.
SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:
The target table must support the column types that are being replicated from the source PostgreSQL table.
Currently, SharePlex does not support DDL operations when replicating data from a PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source to an SQL Server target. It only supports tables as objects for data replication.
The following is a list of known issues, including those attributed to third-party products, known to exist at the time of release.
| Issue ID | Known Issues | Component/ Feature |
|---|---|---|
| SPSQL-8730 |
In SPUtils Task Manager on Windows, the port for Sp_CopSvr is visible, but the port details for the SharePlex processes started by Sp_CopSvr are not displayed. Workaround: Check for the SharePlex process connected to the specific port using sp_ctrl. This will display the processes associated with that port, showing their Cygwin PIDs. The corresponding Windows PIDs can be found using the ps command. |
SPUtils/Windows |
| SPSQL-8734 |
The PIDs displayed for all SharePlex processes in the sp_ctrl Status command output do not match the PIDs shown in the SPUtils Task Manager tab. Workaround: Execute the following command in the Command Prompt to view the Windows PID when the process is in a running state: ps -W | findstr <cygwin_pid> |
SPUtils Task Manager/Windows |
| SPSQL-5252 |
In the bi-directional replication of data from PostgreSQL 14.7 Google Cloud Platform to Oracle, the Poster process stops with an error when a user-defined procedure tries to resolve the conflicts that occurred on columns with a VARCHAR data type. This issue is observed if the update statement is triggered simultaneously in the same row on both source and target. |
Bi-directional replication |
| SPSQL-8400 |
In the Compare/Repair process, the row count in the Oracle table might be outdated because it is initially fetched from the system table sys.tab$, which is not updated in real-time and depends on the DB stats analyzer process. As a result, users may encounter the error source vs target table size difference too large incorrectly in some cases. Workaround: Either wait for the row count to be updated in the system table by the stats analyzer process, or use the override option as suggested. |
Compare/Repair |
| SPSQL-4858 | SharePlex displays the ORA-22990: LOB locators cannot span transactions error, and Compare results show out-of-sync data when users perform DML operations on data in replication after moving a LOB segment. This issue occurs during 23ai batch execution. | Compare |
| SPSQL-5664 | The Copy command fails on Windows machines due to the ORACLE_HOME environment variable not being populated correctly. | Copy command |
| SPSQL-4971 | The tables are going out of sync after performing DML operations through otest, and the CLOB column data is not being inserted during the script execution. | DML operations |
| SPSQL-5274 | SharePlex displays incorrect column names for schemas when the column name exceeds 30 characters on the source, in JSON and XML formats, during replication from Oracle to Kafka. | Kafka |
| SPSQL-4764 | The Poster process fails to replicate data from Oracle 19c to the file target after a Truncate operation is performed on the replicated data. This issue specifically affects tables containing BFILE and SDO_GEOMETRY columns. | Poster |
| SPSQL-4982 | When there are multiple Named Queues set up in replication, after activating the config, the SharePlex Poster process displays the execute select pg_replication_origin_create ('sp_post_2600_7'); failed error upon its initial startup. However, after displaying the error, SharePlex automatically restarts the Poster process to resolve the issue. | Poster |
| SPSQL-8303 | The Poster process stops due to an error after activation when a partial wildcard in the config file matches both SharePlex demo tables and user-created tables. | Poster |
| SPSQL-8404 |
The Poster process stops with an error when users try to replicate a horizontally partitioned table with a case-sensitive schema, table name, and a single partitioning scheme from the Oracle to the PostgreSQL database. Workaround: Create separate partitioning schemes for each target table name and create a separate entry for each table in the config file. |
Poster |
| SPSQL-8415 | The Snowflake Poster encounters a core dump issue when calling SQLDriverConnect from OdbcDriver::connect() for Snowflake connections. It also fails when running the snowflake_cleansp utility during a function call. This issue is observed with ODBC driver version 3.3 and above. | Poster |
| SPSQL-6104 | The SharePlex Poster process stopped due to an ORA-40441 error: JSON syntax error, triggered when users insert bulk JSON data for CLOB/NCLOB storage, which is stored as BASICFILE. | Poster |
| SPSQL-5630 | The Poster process stops due to an error when only the target table has a check constraint, and the inserted data violates that check constraint. | Poster |
| SPSQL-5454 | The SharePlex Poster process stops after activating the configuration for a hash partition on a target VM that has a '-' in its hostname. This issue is observed on the Windows platform. | Poster |
| SPSQL-5459 | When inserting the same rows multiple times into a table without a primary key and then updating all rows, an OOS (out-of-sync) error message appears in the Poster log. This issue occurs for both tables with normal names and table names longer than 30 characters during Oracle to PostgreSQL replication. | Poster |
| SPSQL-6117 | The undo_provision utility is not fully reverting all the changes made by the Provision utility. | Provision |
| SPSQL-5894 | When the Capture, Export, and Post queues have messages, and users run the Purge Config command, all queues are emptied as expected. However, error messages are observed in the source event logs. | Purge Config |
| SPSQL-5550 | When using the Query command 'job status "Error"', the status history for previous jobs with the "Error" status is not shown during Oracle to Oracle and PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL replication. | Query command |
| SPSQL-8019 |
SharePlex displays the error index row size 3040 exceeds btree version 4 maximum 2704 when users set the parameter SP_DEQ_USE_SP_CKSUM=1 and try to repair a table without a Primary Key (PK) during Oracle to PostgreSQL replication. Workaround:
|
Repair |
| SPO-21339 | The SharePlex Capture process is getting stuck when users change the Oracle compatibility parameter from 11g to 12c. This issue is observed on the 12c 4 node RAC database. | Capture |
| SPO-16453 | The BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE data types are not supported for the copy command. | Character Sets |
| SPO-20733 | Compare will hang and the compare server will exit comparing table that has VARRAY containing UDT type. | Compare |
| SPO-20451 | Compare/Repair using [schema].[table] may not work on AIX 7.2 with Oracle 19c due to establishing a network connection. | Compare |
| SPO-20843 | Copy job status shows 'Locked' even when competed. | Copy/ Append |
| SPO-21993 | While activating a config file with an Oracle SCN number, users are not able to delete a column in a DDL activity. | DDL Drop Column |
| SPSQL-8632 | The Copy command executes successfully, but when checking the status with the Job Status command, it displays Syncing instead of Done. | Job Status |
| SPSQL-8407 |
During Oracle to Kafka replication, the schema records of all tables are being replicated, not just the tables being replicated from Oracle to Kafka. Workaround: Set the schema value to 'no' to avoid sending the schema record. However, validate whether the schema record is used internally before applying this setting. |
Kafka |
| SPO-20205 | Oracle to Kafka supported data format: Kafka replicates the varray column data only in the XML format. Currently, Kafka does not replicate the varray column data in the JSON format. |
Kafka |
| SPO-20842 | On Oracle 19c processing large n-items can lead to OOS and/or missing commits. | LOBs, VARRAYs, XML |
| SPO-22342 | Performance issue is observed while performing the DML operations in bulk. | MySQL |
| SPSQL-4971 | The tables are getting out-of-sync after users perform bulk DML operations on the CLOB column data. This issue has been observed while working on Oracle 21c. | Oracle 21c |
| SPO-22517 | Performance issue is observed during replication while using partition table over the cloud. | Partition table |
| SPSQL-6609 | SharePlex displays an error when users attempt to create a database name in lowercase during pg_setup that matches an existing database name in uppercase on the system. | pg_setup |
| SPSQL-4982 | The SharePlex Poster process displays the Poster: execute select pg_replication_origin_create ('sp_post_xxxx_x'); failed error when creating an origin with logical replication for PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL replication. | Poster |
| SPSQL-5252 | The SharePlex Poster stops due to an error when attempting to resolve conflicts on VARCHAR columns in a PostgreSQL-Oracle bi-directional setup using a user-defined conflict resolution procedure. | Poster |
| SPO-24922 | SharePlex does not support the RAISE command on PostgreSQL databases. Poster stops with the Post stops error=-1 when trigger issues a RAISE [LABEL] error message. | RAISE command |
| SPSQL-5625 | SharePlex displays the Error encountered in remove_trigger objectid error when users attempt to disable or enable any trigger using the sp_pg_add_trigger.sql and sp_pg_remove_trigger.sql scripts for the given schema. | Trigger Scripts |
| SPO-19048 | Replication of tables with varray columns from an Oracle source to a non-Oracle target can get out of sync because Oracle doesn't include key information on updates. | varray columns |
| Issue ID | Known Issue | Component/ Feature |
|---|---|---|
| 29865658 | On Windows Server, Oracle 19c versions below 19.6 have an Oracle bug (29865658) that causes the SharePlex ora_setup, Reader, and Poster processes to get stuck. This bug is fixed in version 19.6 and later.To avoid this issue with SharePlex, either upgrade the Oracle 19c database to version 19.6 or higher. Users need to contact Oracle to obtain a patch for bug 29865658 or set the CLIENT_STATISTICS_LEVEL database parameter to 'OFF'. | Oracle |
| SR 3-33906406631 | After moving the LOB segment, users may encounter an 'ORA-22275' or 'ORA-22990' Oracle error when performing DML operations. Additionally, the Compare result may be displayed as out of sync. This issue is observed intermittently on Oracle 21c. See Oracle bug report SR 3-33906406631. | Oracle |
| 101806 | When replicating data from Oracle to MySQL, SharePlex Poster displays an error after performing the Update operation on columns with the data type integer and column values that are multiples of 1000. This issue is related to a defect in the MySQL database: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=101806 | MySQL |
| 54799 | RHEL with 11g may encounter issues when producing core files. To work around this issue users will need to change the parameter "core_pattern" in the /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern file. The following command enables core files: sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=core. The original setting is: /corefiles/core. In this state, the system looks for a directory named /corefiles, which does not exist, therefore a core file could not be created. | Linux |
| 125639 | There might be an issue when replicating VARRAYs with FLOAT(n) type to a target machine running Oracle 10g, due to the way that Oracle handles Float(n) types. Float is not an Oracle type; it is a SQL-92 type and Oracle is not consistent in the way that it handles the float type. This is a known Oracle bug. See Oracle bug report 4266304. | Oracle |
| 44626 | Users wishing to employ IOTs with overflow need to be running Oracle 11g or higher. This is a known Oracle issue addressed under 4627859. | Oracle |
| 53701 | There is a known issue with INSERT DIRECT LOAD VALUES (IDLV) in Oracle 11g that prevents the reading or modification of an object after modifying it in parallel. Oracle has provided three solutions for addressing this issue. They can be found in the Oracle update of SR6849411.993 dated 05-07-2008. This issue was fixed by Oracle in 11gR2. | Oracle |
| 59258 | Oracle versions 10.2.0.1 through 11.1.0.6 on AIX 5.3 (64 bit), members of SharePlex Admin group, other than the installation user, cannot run ora_setup or start SharePlex. Please see Oracle Bug # 6800649 and apply Patch 6800649. | Oracle |
| 75179 | Oracle 11gR2 - During a SYNC job, the copy of a new table (without data) failed at “EXP-00011: table does not exist” . The table that failed is a new table without any data. The EXP-00011 is caused by 11gR2 new feature "Deferred Segment Creation" that is controlled by the initialization parameter DEFERRED_SEGMENT_CREATION. The default is ON. To avoid this error, disable the parameter. A tar has been opened with Oracle and Oracle created a note 960216.1 Original Export Raises EXP-11 Table Does Not Exist. | Oracle |
| 92152 | OLTP compression with supplemental logging enabled may corrupt the Oracle Undo block, so Oracle suggests disabling supplemental logging when running OLTP compression. However, SharePlex requires supplemental logging to be enabled, so you may encounter this bug. This affects Oracle versions 11.2.0.2, 11.2.0.1 and 11.1.0.7. See Metalink ID 1191474.1. | Oracle |
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