Oracle GoldenGate is licensed per processor on the source and the target, so a single replication link is counted twice, and the option stack of Veridata and the Management Pack can triple the bill. This paper shows the list prices and the buyer side defense.
Oracle GoldenGate is one of the easiest Oracle products to underestimate. A modest replication link looks like a small line item, yet the software runs on both ends, at $17,500 per processor plus 22 percent annual support, so the count quietly doubles.
The base product is only the start. GoldenGate Veridata lists higher than GoldenGate itself, and the Management Pack rides alongside, often folded into a single quoted line. On a worked 32 core estate the list figure runs from $560,000 for the base product to over $1.6M for the full stack.
This white paper walks the counting rules, the edition and option ladder, the source and target doubling, and the buyer side moves that cut the bill, including where Active Data Guard covers the need at a fraction of the cost.
Oracle GoldenGate is licensed per processor, derived from physical cores times the core factor, on every server that runs a GoldenGate process. For Intel x86 the core factor is 0.5, so a 32 core server is 16 processor licenses. The base product lists at $17,500 per processor with 22 percent annual support.
Yes, GoldenGate runs as Extract on the source and Replicat on the target, and each server is licensed for its own cores. A one way feed from a 32 core source to a 32 core target needs 32 processor licenses, not 16, which is the doubling most cost models miss.
Oracle GoldenGate lists at $17,500 per processor, with annual support at 22 percent of the net license fee. GoldenGate for Big Data lists at $20,000, GoldenGate Veridata at $30,000, and the Management Pack for Oracle GoldenGate at $3,500, all per processor. Stacking these on both ends is where cost climbs.
GoldenGate for Big Data targets platforms such as Kafka, Hadoop, and object stores and lists at $20,000 per processor with a source side only rule, so the target cluster nodes do not carry GoldenGate licenses. The base product replicates between databases and is licensed on both source and target.
Yes, GoldenGate is an option that sits on top of a licensed Oracle Database, so the database edition is licensed on both source and target as well as GoldenGate. The database license travels with the GoldenGate deployment and should be modeled alongside it.
No, Active Data Guard provides physical standby and read only reporting for one way protection, often at a fraction of a full GoldenGate stack. GoldenGate earns its price for bidirectional replication, zero downtime migration, and replication across different databases, not as a substitute for a standby feature the database already offers.
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