PowerExchange CDC for Oracle:

LogMiner vs. Express

Dan Smith
Principal Subject Matter Expert
May 2012

PowerExchange CDC for Oracle

Two PowerExchange Oracle CDC products:
PWX LogMiner CDC
PWX Express CDC
Architecture Comparison
Feature Comparison
Short Term Roadmap

PowerExchange CDC for Oracle:

Two Products

PowerExchange CDC for Oracle

PowerExchange LogMiner CDC for Oracle
Traditional PWX Oracle CDC
Can handle 6-8 GB / hour of Oracle Archive Log
Single Threaded: will use at most 1 CPU
Leverages Oracles LogMiner utility
Subject to LogMiner bugs and disconnects
Strongly recommend running PWXCCL (PWX Logger for LUW)
Is included in the base price of PWX CDC for Oracle

PowerExchange CDC for Oracle

PowerExchange Express CDC for Oracle
Replaces the LogMiner part of the product with a new Log
Reader developed by Informatica
10x faster than PWX LogMiner CDC for Oracle
Multi-threaded, will take advantage of multiple CPU (New!)
Developed & Supported by Informatica PWX R&D
Installs the same way, uses the same registrations, except.
If you want to capture ROWID (New!), then tables must be re-registered.
A cold start is required if upgrading from PWX LogMiner CDC

Uses PWXCCL (the PWX Logger for Linux, UNIX, & Windows)
Can not run in the same PWX instance as PWX LogMiner CDC
Is included in the base price of PWX CDC for Oracle

PowerExchange CDC for Oracle:

Architecture Comparison

Continuous Extraction of changes

Architecture for Oracle using PWX LogMiner CDC 9.x
Operating Environment
Oracle Instance

Data Integration
Platform

PowerExchange

PowerExchange Logger

Collector

PWX Listener

Oracle
Logs

LogMiner

Checkpoint
Files

CND
Files

Data
Records

PowerCenter
SQL

Registration
Data Maps

Oracle

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Architecture for Oracle using PWX Express CDC 9.1.2
Operating Environment (PWX resides on Oracle Server)
Oracle Server

Data Integration
Platform

Checkpoint
Files

Collector
CND
Files

PWX Listener

Oracle
Logs

Log Reader

PowerExchange Logger

Data
Records

PowerCenter
SQL

Registrations
Data Maps

Oracle

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Architecture for Oracle ASM using PWX Express CDC 9.1.2
Operating Environment (PWX not on DB server)
Oracle
Server

Data Integration
Platform

PowerExchange Server

PowerExchange Logger

Checkpoint
Files

Oracle
Logs

Collector

Log Reader

Oracle

Logger
Files

Listener

ASM
Calls

Data
Records

PowerCenter
SQL

Registrations
Data Maps

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Architecture for Oracle Non-ASM using PWX Express CDC 9.1.2
Operating Environment (PWX not on DB server)
Oracle
Server

Data Integration
Platform

PowerExchange Server

Collector
Checkpoint
Files

Oracle
Logs

Oracle
Logs
via NFS

Logger
Files

Listener

Oracle

Log Reader

PowerExchange Logger

Data
Recs

PowerCenter
SQL

Registrations
Data Maps

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Continuous Extraction of changes

Architecture for Oracle Log Shipping using PWX Express CDC 9.5.1
Operating Environment (PWX not on DB server)
Oracle
Server

Data Integration
Platform

PowerExchange Server

Collector
Checkpoint
Files

Oracle
Logs

Shipped
Archive
Logs

Logger
Files

Listener

Oracle

Log Reader

PowerExchange Logger

Data
Recs

PowerCenter
SQL

Registrations
Data Maps

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PWX for Oracle CDC Comparisons

Transaction Server

Oracle
Logs

PWX LogMiner
CDC

Real-time change data capture and

delivery with:
Minimal Impact
Low Latency
Continuous Data Delivery

Oracle
Logminer

Hi Volume Transaction Server

PowerExchange
Listener

Oracle
Logs

Informatica
LogRead
API

The main change to PWX Oracle CDC was to replace

Oracle LogMiner with an Informatica written Log Reader

PWX Express CDC

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PowerExchange CDC for Oracle:

Feature Comparison

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Feature Comparison
All Things Are Not Equal
Feature Description

LogMiner

Express

Can process over 8GB Archive logs per hour

No

Yes

Supports RAC

Yes

Yes

Supports ASM

Yes

Yes

Supports V9 of Informatica

Yes

Yes

Supports Index Organized Tables

Yes

No

Supports Compression (Oracle tables/data)

Yes

No

Supports Sorted Hash Cluster Columns

Yes

No

Supports Transactional Data Encryption (TDE)

Yes

No

Oracle Log Shipping

No

9.5.1

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PowerExchange Express CDC for Oracle

Short Term Roadmap

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PWX Express CDC for Oracle 9.1.2 -> 9.5.1

Features by Version

9.1.2

9.1.2HF1

9.5

9.5.1

8/2011

3/2012

6/2012

12/2012

Integrated Restart/Recovery Management

Integrated with Informaticas ETL platform

Changes captured based on completed Units of Work

Capture Changes once, Consume unlimited times

Logger can run anywhere, and store changes anywhere

Flexible configuration, run anywhere & communicate via

SQL*Net

Faster, easier implementation (no LogMiner setup)

Source data filtering at the lowest level

Support PowerCenter/PowerExchange v9.1.0 HF1

Convergence to 9.5 release train

Full PAM Support

Release Date:

Support PowerCenter/PowerExchange v9.1.0 HF4

Archive_Only: Support Archive Log shipping

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PowerExchange Express CDC for Oracle:

Release Timeline

PWX Oracle CDC

Beyond 9.5.1

PWX Express 9.5.1

December 2012

Performance and Feature Enhancements

TBD based on competitive analysis and
Customer Requirements

PWX Express 9.5

June 2012
PWX Express 9.1.2 HF1
March 2012

Read archive logs shipped to a different

server
Integration into 9.5 Release train Complete PAM

Express 9.1.2
August 2011

PWX Express bug fixes

Support PC/PWX 9.1.0 HF4 Support Win64, z/Linux
Support PowerCenter/PWX 9.1.0 HF1
Support RAC & ASM Support AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris

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