In this post, we show how to migrate an Oracle data warehouse to Amazon Redshift using Oracle GoldenGate and DMS Schema Conversion, a feature of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). This approach facilitates minimal business disruption through continuous replication. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze your data using your existing business intelligence tools.
Solution overview
Our migration approach combines DMS Schema Conversion for schema migration and Oracle GoldenGate for data replication. The migration process consists of four main steps:
- Schema conversion using DMS Schema Conversion.
- Initial data load using Oracle GoldenGate.
- Change data capture (CDC) for ongoing replication.
- Final cutover to Amazon Redshift.
The following diagram shows the migration workflow architecture from Oracle to…
