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SharePlex 11.4 - Release Notes

Deprecated Platforms and Operating Systems

Platforms or operating systems that have been deprecated in SharePlex 11.4 version:

Oracle Solaris x86 11.3

Note: While SharePlex 11.x only supports installation on Unix and Linux platforms, a version that supports Windows will be provided in the future. As such, the Windows platform is not considered deprecated. In most cases, replication for systems running on Windows is supported through remote replication. Please see Source and Target System Requirements and Data Types for details.

Planned platform deprecation in future releases:

No platforms are anticipated to be deprecated at this time.

Basic system requirements

This chapter contains the basic system requirements for SharePlex. See also: Source and Target System Requirements and Data Types

System

Before installing SharePlex, ensure that your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements.

  • SharePlex processes are all 64-bit and can exceed 4 GB.
  • Per process memory of greater than or equal to 256 MB is required. Depending on how you configure SharePlex, there can be one or more of the following processes on a system :
    • Capture
    • Read
    • Export
    • Import
    • Post
  • See the Preinstallation Checklist in the SharePlex Installation Guide for additional system and/or database requirements.

Communications Protocols

SSL/TLS

For TLS connections, SharePlex supports TLS 1.2 or 1.3 only.

Internet protocol

SharePlex supports IPv4 and IPv6 internet protocols. The following table shows the operating systems for which SharePlex was tested with IPv6.

Operating System

Source

Target

SharePlex versions

On-premises

Cloud

Linux RHEL 7

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.0 and above

Linux RHEL 8

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.0 and above

Linux RHEL 9

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.4

HP UA

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.0 and above

HP IA

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.0 and above

SUN Sparc

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.0 and above

SUN Solaris

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.0 and above

AIX

Link-Local IPV6

Link-Local IPV6

11.0 and above

Interoperability Between Versions

Refer to the following guidelines if the system where you are installing SharePlex is in a configuration where one or more other systems will continue to use an older version of SharePlex. An example is when installing or upgrading SharePlex on a target, but the source will continue to use SharePlex 9.4.x/10.x.

Versions with interoperability for Oracle database as a source

The following SharePlex versions are interoperable for Oracle database as a source, including the Compare/Repair feature:

  • 9.4.x
  • 10.0.x
  • 10.1.x
  • 10.2

Notes:

To support replication from a higher to a lower version, set the SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY parameter on the source system to the lower SharePlex version. If Capture is running, restart it.

Important: Downgrading from a higher to a lower version of SharePlex is not supported.

Notes:

  • The older version of the SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY parameter, SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY, was deprecated in version 9.0. If your source SharePlex is currently replicating to a lower SharePlex version on the target and you have SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY set to the lower version, SharePlex will continue to use that value after you upgrade to the current version.
  • If you upgrade the target to the current release at a future time, issue a reset for SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY on the source system to remove it from the SharePlex environment. Going forward, SharePlex will use the setting of the new SP_SYS_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY parameter, which defaults to the current version.

To reset SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY:

  1. Stop Capture.
    sp_ctrl> stop capture
  2. In sp_ctrl on the source system, issue the following command:
    sp_ctrl>reset param SP_OCT_TARGET_COMPATIBILITY

  3. Restart Capture.
    sp_ctrl>start capture

SharePlex Features Interoperable with Versions 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4

The below table provides a list of features with their SharePlex version compatibility details with supported source and target databases.

SharePlex feature Supported source database Supported target database SharePlex source version SharePlex target version
Ability to replicate PostgreSQL timestamp to Oracle Date Unidirectional replication PostgreSQL Oracle SharePlex 11.0 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
Ability to replicate PostgreSQL timestamp to Oracle Date replication with BDR support PostgreSQL Oracle and PostgreSQL SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
Activate config with LSN using user provided LSN PostgreSQL* PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
SharePlex PostgreSQL - show_last_posted utility - P2P PostgreSQL* PostgreSQL SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
Support for High Availability cluster environment with CrunchyData PostgreSQL* PostgreSQL SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.0 and above
PG2O-O2PG BDR - SharePlex prepared routines - !MostRecentRecord, !LeastRecentRecord, !UpdateUsingKeyOnly, !HostPriority, !UpdateUsingKeyOnly Oracle and PostgreSQL Oracle and PostgreSQL SharePlex 11.0 & Above SharePlex 11.0 & Above
Case sensitive column names PostgreSQL Oracle SharePlex 11.1 & Above SharePlex 11.1 and above
PostgreSQL Database as a Service as source PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.0 & Above
Trigger scripts PostgreSQL PostgreSQL SharePlex  11.1 and above SharePlex  11.1 and above
SharePlex PostgreSQL - config.sql and build_config.sql scripts PostgreSQL Not target dependent SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
Implementation of the BOOLEAN data type PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, Oracle, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.1 & Above SharePlex 11.1 & Above
Implementation of the TIME data type PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.1 & Above SharePlex 11.1 & Above
Implementation of the BYTEA data type PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, Kafka, Oracle SharePlex 11.1 & Above SharePlex 11.1 & Above
Support for column name > 30 characters PostgreSQL, Oracle PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
Support for Kafka Partition key Oracle Kafka SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
Long table name Oracle PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.0 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above
PostgreSQL Compression Algorithm with Physical replication** PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.0 and above SharePlex 11.0 and above
PostgreSQL Compression Algorithm with Logical replication** PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Kafka, Snowflake SharePlex 11.1 and above SharePlex 11.1 and above

* These features are available only with PostgreSQL physical replication and not with PostgreSQL Database as a Service.

**Types of PostgreSQL Compression Algorithm:

  • pglz is supported with physical replication, where Capture receives data in compressed format and decompresses it.

  • pglz and lz4 are supported with logical replication, as decompression is done by the output plugin (pgoutput), and Capture receives data in decompressed format.

Source and Target System Requirements and Data Types

This chapter contains the requirements when capturing from various source databases and replicating to supported target databases.

Supported Source and Target Combinations

The following table provides information about the supported source and target database combinations.

Target databases Oracle (Source) PostgreSQL (Source) PostgreSQL Database as a Service (Source)
Oracle
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
JMS X X
Azure Event Hub X X
Hana X X
MySQL X X
Kafka
File Output X X
Snowflake
PostgreSQL Database as a Service

System Requirements and Conditions of Support When Replicating from Oracle

This chapter contains the requirements when capturing from an Oracle database and replicating to supported target databases.

Prerequisite: At least the minimum level of supplemental logging must be enabled. Some SharePlex features may require PK/UK supplemental logging to be enabled.

Oracle source basics

This section contains the requirements for an Oracle database as a source when capturing from an Oracle database and replicating to supported target databases.

Supported operating systems

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 native 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 7.1, 7.2, and 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.x

  • SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x

  • Rocky Linux 8.x

Supported operating systems via remote replication:

All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2016 and 2019, are supported via remote replication.

Important! SharePlex 11.0 and above versions can only be installed on Unix and Linux platforms.

A SharePlex version that can be installed on Windows will be supported in a future version. Customers with database platforms that run on Windows should consult the Installation and Setup for Remote Capture and Run database setup for Oracle remote capture sections from the Installation and Setup Guide for an Oracle Source for the Capture process and the Replicate to a remote target system section from the SharePlex Admin Guide for the Poster process that describe support for remote replication scenarios that may address your particular platform requirements.

Supported versions

SharePlex supports the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c, and 21c.

Notes:
  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same versions.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database
  • In addition to the Supported Operating Systems for Oracle and the Supported Cloud Platforms for Oracle, the Oracle versions listed above are also supported when running on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later) and 19c. Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-12-1, default:oracle-ee-19, and default:oracle-se2-19.

Supported cloud platforms

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • Oracle Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS)
  • Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC)1
  • Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS)2
  • Oracle Compute (IaaS) Virtual Machines and Bare Metal

Amazon Web Services

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 3
  • Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine

Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)

Conditions of support
  1. Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC): Issues on Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer will be tested against Oracle Exadata Cloud Service for reproduction purposes.

  2. Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS): SharePlex only supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature on DBCS EE-HP, DBCS EE-EP, and ExaCS/CC.

  3. Amazon RDS for Oracle: Please see Supported Oracle Source and Target Versions for additional clarification on version compatibility.

Oracle source basic conditions of support

Non-supported Oracle features

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.

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 in the SharePlex Administrator Guide to work around this issue:

  1. Remove source objects from replication
  2. Perform the flashback
  3. Add or change objects in an active configuration
Additional information about data types

Notes about open target data type support 

  • Replication of SecureFile LOBS to non-Oracle databases is supported except if the storage specification includes any level of compression, encryption, and/or deduplication.
  • Replication of LOB operations generated by dbms_lob are not supported when replicating to non-Oracle targets.

  • SharePlex applies replicated Oracle data to the target according to the data type of the target column, rather than mapping to a default data type. Corresponding source and target columns must contain compatible data types to ensure successful DML operations.
  • If the precision or size of the target data type is not large enough for the data being replicated, the target database may truncate or round the data when SharePlex applies it.

SharePlex does not support the replication of data from Oracle to open targets for the below Extended Data Types: 

  • VARCHAR2 (4000-32767)
  • NVARCHAR2 (4000-16383)
  • RAW (2000-32767)
Supported / non-supported SharePlex features for Oracle to open targets replication

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 Not supported
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
System requirements for replication of OLTP compressed data

This chapter contains the requirements when capturing OLTP compressed data from an Oracle source database and replicating it to a supported target database.

Supported operating systems

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:

  • AIX 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
  • Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.x
  • RHEL 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x
  • CentOS Linux 7.x
  • Oracle Solaris SPARC 11.4
  • CentOS Linux 7.x

  • SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x

  • HP-UX 11.31 Itanium

  • Rocky Linux 8.x

Supported Oracle database version/s

SharePlex supports the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c, and 21c for replicating the OLTP compressed data.

Supported objects and operations for DML replication

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.

Tables

SharePlex supports the following DML operations on tables:

  • INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, COMMIT, ROLLBACK
  • 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:

Supported table type*

Conditions of Support

Regular Oracle tables

None

Index-organized tables

SharePlex does not support:

  • Replication to/from index-organized tables that contain LOB or VARRAY columns
  • Replication from a non-index-organized table to an index-organized table
  • SharePlex hash-based horizontal partitioning of index-organized tables

Partitioned tables

None

Views

None

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:

  • Replication to/from nested tables
  • Replication to/from clustered tables

*SharePlex does not support the following for any table type:

  • Replication to/from Identity columns.
  • Replication of rows changed by 'UPDATE WITH CASE' syntax.
  • Replication of rows in which data exceeds 319 KB in size, excluding LOB and LONG columns
  • Replication of external tables or tables with external partitions

Sequences
  • Transactional changes to Oracle sequences can be replicated only from Oracle to Oracle.
  • To replicate transactional changes to 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.
Secured and compressed objects

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

DML on tables with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)1

All target types

DML on Oracle Label Security (OLS)2

All target types

DML on compressed objects: Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, HCC3

All target types

Direct Load (DLOAD) on compressed objects: Basic, Advanced Row (OLTP) Compression, HCC3

All target types
Conditions of support

1. Conditions of support - 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. Conditions of support - 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:

  • The SharePlex user was granted full privilege to the objects in replication.
  • Test tables with OLS security were created.
  • Data was replicated using INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ROLLBACK, and TRUNCATE operations, and ALTER TABLE to add and drop columns.

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. Conditions of support - 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.

Oracle to open targets DDL support

SharePlex provides default and optional DDL support.

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:

  • ANALYZE TABLE and ANALYZE INDEX
  • DDL to ALTER TABLE ADD OVERFLOW to an IOT in replication
  • DDL operations issued by the SharePlex database user
  • DDL to ALTER INDEX to an IOT in replication

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:
  • TRUNCATE TABLE is not supported from Oracle compressed objects to open targets.

  • The default mappings of Oracle data types to their open target counterpart for replicated ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN DDL are shown in the "Supported Data type" section of the respective target. When adds the column, it defines it with the default data type. This mapping applies to the entire configuration (not per table).

Oracle to Azure Event Hubs replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Azure Event Hubs, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

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 and 8.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 Azure Event Hubs target

Supported platform as a service: Azure Event Hubs

Supported file types

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Supported operations and objects for DDL 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.

Oracle to File Output replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to File Output, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

Supported operating systems via native installation:

  • AIX 7.1, 7.2, and 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.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.

Supported file types

  • XML file
  • SQL file
  • JSON file
XML format supported open targets

This mapping applies to all targets that receive messages as XML:

  • File in XML format
  • JMS
  • Kafka
  • Azure/Kafka Event Hubs
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.
Conditions of support

Only the following data types in a VARRAY are supported by SharePlex when replicating to XML output:

  • BINARY_FLOAT
  • VARCHAR2
  • BINARY_DOUBLE
  • NUMBER
  • TIMESTAMP (This is converted to a DATE data type without microseconds in XML output)
  • DATE
  • UDT (only if it contains one of the data types in this list)

See Conditions of support for the additional conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.

JSON format supported open targets

This mapping applies to all targets that receive messages as JSON:

  • File in XML format
  • JMS
  • Kafka
  • Azure/Kafka Event Hubs
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 conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Supported operations and objects for DDL 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.

Oracle to HANA replication

SharePlex for Hana is in limited support effective February 1, 2022. SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to HANA, according to the details below.

Supported Hana targets

SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 11

Supported data types

SharePlex supports the following data types for replication from Oracle to Hana:

Oracle HANA
BINARY_DOUBLE DOUBLE
BINARY_FLOAT DOUBLE
BLOB BLOB
CHAR (n) CHAR (n)
CLOB CLOB
DATE TIMESTAMP
LONG CLOB
LONGRAW BLOB
NCHAR (n) NCHAR (n)
NCLOB NCLOB
NUMBER DECIMAL
NUMBER (p,0:) DECIMAL (p,s)
NUMBER (p,s) DECIMAL
NVARCHAR2 (n) NVARCHAR (n)
RAW (n) VARBINARY (n)
TIMESTAMP (p) TIMESTAMP
VARCHAR2 (n) VARCHAR (n)

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

SharePlex supports DML operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a Hana target. For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.

Supported operations and objects for DDL replication

SharePlex supports DDL operations on tables and sequences, with some conditions. DDL can be replicated from an Oracle source to a Hana target. For additional information, see Oracle to open target DDL support.

Oracle to JMS Message Queues replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to JMS Message Queues, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

Native SharePlex installation is supported on the below operating systems:

  • AIX 7.1 and 7.2

  • 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.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.

Supported JMS Message Queues

  • JMS - Apache ActiveMQ 5.8 and 5.16.7
  • JMS - IBM MQ 8 and 9.3

Supported file types

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Supported operations and objects for DDL 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.

Oracle to Kafka replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Kafka, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

Supported operating systems via native installation:

  • CentOS Linux 7.x

  • Oracle Linux 7.x and 8.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 and 8.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.

Supported Kafka targets

Apache Kafka 0.8.x, 0.9.x, 0.10.x, 0.11.x, 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.0, 2.3.1, 2.5.0, 3.0, 3.3, and 3.6.1

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.

Supported formats

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Supported operations and objects for DDL 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.

Oracle to MySQL replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to MySQL, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

Supported operating systems via native 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 7.1, 7.2, and 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 2016 and 2019

Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Supported target versions and ODBC requirements

MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0.26

ODBC driver requirement:

  • ODBC 8.0.26 for Linux

  • ODBC 5.3.14

Supported target cloud platforms

Amazon Web Services

  • Amazon RDS for MySQL
  • Amazon Aurora

Microsoft Azure

  • Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
  • MySQL Azure database (PaaS)

Supported data types

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) 2 DATETIME (6)
TIMESTAMP (p) 2 DATETIME (p)
VARCHAR2 (n) VARCHAR (n)
Conditions of support
  1. Because Oracle and MySQL handle this data type differently, there may be a very small difference in precision between the value of the source and the value of the target row. You may see the difference when viewing the data from SQL*Plus or other utility, but SharePlex will not report this difference as an out-of-sync condition.
  2. If the MySQL target database is earlier than version 5.6.4, the fractional seconds will be truncated. Earlier versions did not support fractional seconds.

See Conditions of support for the additional conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Supported operations and objects for DDL 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.

Oracle to Oracle replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Oracle, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

Supported operating systems via native installation:

  • AIX 7.1, 7.2, and 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.x

  • SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x

  • Rocky Linux 8.x

Remote replication from the following operating systems is supported:

  • AIX 7.1, 7.2, and 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.x

  • SuSE SLES 12.x and 15.x

  • Rocky Linux 8.x

Supported target operating systems via remote replication:

All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2016 and 2019, are supported via remote replication.

Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Supported target versions

SharePlex supports the Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle 12cR1, 12cR2, 18c, 19c, and 21c.

Notes:
  • Unless specified, Oracle, RAC, and ASM are supported for the same versions.
  • SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of Oracle Database
  • In addition to the Supported Operating Systems for Oracle and the Supported Cloud Platforms for Oracle, the Oracle versions listed above are also supported when running on an Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 12cR1 (supported 12cR1 versions are 12.1.0.2.v7 or later) and 19c. Support for Oracle features on Amazon RDS is limited to the default option groups: default:oracle-ee-12-1, default:oracle-ee-19, and default:oracle-se2-19.

Supported target cloud platforms

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • Oracle Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS)
  • Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC)1
  • Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS)2
  • Oracle Compute (IaaS) Virtual Machines and Bare Metal

Amazon Web Services

  • Amazon RDS for Oracle 3
  • Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine

Microsoft Azure

Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)

Conditions of support
  1. Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer (ExaCC): Issues on Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer will be tested against Oracle Exadata Cloud Service for reproduction purposes.

  2. Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS): SharePlex only supports Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature on DBCS EE-HP, DBCS EE-EP, and ExaCS/CC.

  3. Amazon RDS for Oracle: Please see Supported Oracle Source and Target Versions for additional clarification on version compatibility.

Supported data types

SharePlex supports the following Oracle data types for replication to Oracle targets. See the Conditions of support for additional information.

  • ANYDATA 1
  • B-FILE
  • BINARY DOUBLE 7
  • BINARY FLOAT 7
  • BLOB 2
  • CHAR
  • CLOB 2
  • DATE
  • INTERVAL
  • LONG RAW2
  • LONG 2
  • NCHAR
  • NCLOB 3
  • NUMBER
  • NVARCHAR2 8
  • RAW 8
  • ROWID
  • SDO_GEOMETRY
  • TIMESTAMP
  • TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
  • TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
  • UDT (User Defined Type)5
  • UROWID
  • VARCHAR
  • VARCHAR2 8
  • VARRAY collectors
  • XMLTYPE 4

Note: SharePlex supports columns that are defined as INVISIBLE.

Conditions of support

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:

    • CHAR
    • DATE
    • NUMBER
    • RAW
    • VARCHAR
    • VARCHAR2
    • TIMESTAMP
  • A data type within an ANYDATA type must be in-row (inside the column data). Oracle encapsulates the ANYDATA type as an in-row secure file LOB. If the encapsulated data is longer than the length allowed for an in-row LOB, that data appears as out-of-row LOB data. SharePlex assumes that the encapsulated data always appears as in-row LOB.

2. LONG and LOB (BLOB, CLOB)

  • Any table that contains a LOB or LONG should have a primary key or unique key defined on it. If a table does not have a key, SharePlex builds its own key from all of the columns except LONGs or LOBs. If a LOB or LONG is the only difference between two rows that otherwise satisfy the Post WHERE clause, SharePlex cannot guarantee that the correct row will be updated.
  • SharePlex supports SecureFiles LOBs as follows:

    • Logging must be enabled.
    • SharePlex supports uncompressed SecureFiles LOBS and SecureFiles LOBS with high or medium compression (compressed with ZLIB or ZSTD compression libraries)
    • SecureFiles LOBS are not supported when the storage specification includes encryption and/or deduplication.
  • SharePlex does not support LONG and LONG_RAW data types in a configuration where transformation or conflict resolution are performed.

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.

  • Binary XMLTypes are not supported by Compare/Repair when the source and target character sets are different and require character set conversion.
  • Compare/Repair does not support comparison of XMLTYPE when the source and target have different storage clauses. Compare/Repair only supports compare/repair when source and target are both stored as BINARY or both are stored as CLOB.

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

  • Extended Data Types are not supported for the copy command.
  • Extended Data Types are not supported on a key column. The keys that do not support the Extended Data Types include:
    • Primary key on the Oracle table
    • Unique key on the Oracle table
  • Horizontal partitioning is not supported by tables containing the Extended Data Type columns.
  • SharePlex does not replicate data with Extended Data Type when target type is JMS Message Queues, File output (XML, JSON, SQL), Event Hubs, or Kafka.

Supported operations and objects for DDL replication

SharePlex provides default and optional DDL support.

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:

  • ANALYZE TABLE and ANALYZE INDEX
  • DDL to ALTER TABLE ADD OVERFLOW to an IOT in replication
  • DDL operations issued by the SharePlex database user
  • DDL to ALTER INDEX to an IOT in replication
  • 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'.

DDL on objects listed in the active configuration file

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

(when they are added to the source after configuration activation)

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
Conditions of support
  1. ALTER TABLE has the following conditions of support:
    • ALTER TABLE DDL that involves multiple tables, such as EXCHANGE PARTITION between tables, requires all tables involved to be in replication.
    • Default DDL support for ALTER TABLE on partitions/subpartitions applies to user-named interval partitions/subpartitions. For system-named (system generated) interval partitions/subpartitions, SharePlex supports only ALTER TABLE to DROP and TRUNCATE the system-named partitions. To enable support for DROP and TRUNCATE of system-named partitions, set the SP_OCT_TRUNC_PARTITION_BY_ID parameter to 1, and ensure that both source and target are updated to SharePlex version 8.6.4 or later. NOTE: This requirement has changed from previous SharePlex releases in that the parameter must now be set regardless of the Oracle version, including for Oracle 12.2 and later.
    • SharePlex does not support TRUNCATE of a system-generated sub-partition if the sub-partition is empty. In such cases, Post stops with error SP-OPO01002. To configure Post to ignore this error, stop Post, set the SP_OPO_CONT_ON_ERR parameter to 1, and add error number SP-OPO01002 to the top of the oramsglist file. See the SharePlex Reference Guide for more information about this parameter.
  1. For CREATE TABLE AS SELECT, SharePlex supports the following data types: LONG, DATE, RAW, LONG RAW, ROWID, LONG VARCHAR, CHAR, CLOB, BLOB, CFILE, BFILE, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH, INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND, VARCHAR2, NUMBER, and ANYDATA.
  2. For CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW the following applies:

    • SharePlex supports the following data types for CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW: LONG, DATE, RAW, LONG RAW, ROWID, UROWID, LONG VARCHAR, CHAR, CLOB, BLOB, CFILE, BFILE, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH, INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND, VARCHAR2, NUMBER, and ANYDATA. SharePlex does not support ALTER MATERIALIZE VIEW.
    • SharePlex converts a CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW to a CREATE TABLE, applies the CREATE TABLE to the target, and then replicates the DML that populates the view. SharePlex does not replicate materialized views to materialized views.
  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5.  

DDL on objects not listed in the active configuration file

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:

  • CREATE or DROP DIRECTORY
  • GRANT

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Oracle to PostgreSQL replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to PostgreSQL, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

Supported operating systems via native 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

Supported target operating systems via remote replication:

All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2016 and 2019, are supported via remote replication.

Note: SharePlex supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Supported target versions and ODBC requirements

  • PostgreSQL 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10, 13.4, 13.6, 14.1, 15.x, 16

  • Enterprise Database (EDB) 15.x, 16

  • Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL 15 SP2

  • AlloyDB Omni 15.5.x*

*Note: To use the AlloyDB Omni 15.5.x database for data replication using SharePlex, contact the Quest Support team at www.quest.com/contact.

ODBC driver requirement:

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

Supported target cloud platforms

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Compute (IaaS) Virtual Machines and Bare Metal

Amazon Web Services

  • Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine

Microsoft Azure

  • Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
  • Azure DBaaS

Google Cloud Platform

  • Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

  • AlloyDB for PostgreSQL*

*Note: To use the Google AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Cloud platform for data replication using SharePlex, contact the Quest Support team at www.quest.com/contact.

Supported data types

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
NUMBER (p,0:) NUMERIC (p,s)
NUMBER (p,s) NUMERIC
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

Conditions of support: See Conditions of support for the conditions of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Supported operations and objects for DDL 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.

Oracle to Snowflake replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to Snowflake, according to the details below.

Supported operating systems

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 and 8.x

Note: SharePlex Snowflake supports only the 64-bit version of the listed operating systems.

Supported target versions and ODBC requirements

Snowflake 6.31 Enterprise, Community version, and Snowflake 8.1

ODBC driver requirement:Snowflake 3.1.4 and above

Supported target cloud platforms

Microsoft Azure

Supported data types

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.

Conditions of support
  • 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.

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

SharePlex supports DML operations on tables, with some conditions. DML can be replicated from an Oracle source to a Snowflake target.

Tables

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:

  • Slowness while performing DML operations

    • Single Insert: Frequent commits and rollbacks can cause slowness in replication.

    • Batch Inserts: Insert with advance data types [target Snowflake data types: TEXT and BINARY] can cause significant slowness in replication for data with plain text or binary JSON and XML.

    • Single Update and Delete : Frequent commits and rollbacks can cause slowness.

For additional information, see Supported Operations and Objects for DML Replication.

Supported operations and objects for DDL replication

SharePlex does not support DDL operations and objects when replicating data from an Oracle source to a Snowflake target.

Oracle to SQL Server replication

SharePlex supports replication from Oracle to SQL Server, according to the details below.

Supported target operating systems

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 native 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

Supported target operating systems via remote replication:

All platforms listed above, plus Windows Server 2016 and 2019, are supported via remote replication.

Supported target versions and ODBC requirements

SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022

Note: SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016 databases hosted on Windows servers are compatible with Windows Server 2016 and above.

ODBC driver requirement: ODBC 17.10.1.1-1 and 18.3.2.1-1

Supported target cloud platforms

Amazon Web Services

Amazon EC2 (IaaS) Virtual Machine

Microsoft Azure

  • Azure Virtual Machine (IaaS)
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance

Supported data types

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 of support for the above-mentioned supported data types.

Supported operations and objects for DML replication

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.

Supported operations and objects for DDL 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.

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