MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database. With its proven ease-of-use, performance and scalability, MySQL has become the leading database choice for web-based applications, used by high-profile web properties including Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia and many more.

Oracle GoldenGate delivers low-impact, real-time data acquisition, distribution and delivery across heterogeneous systems. Its wide variety of use cases include real-time business intelligence (BI), query offloading, zero-downtime upgrades and migrations, disaster recovery, and active-active databases for data distribution, data synchronization and high availability.

This brief white paper outlines the different capabilities and properties of both platforms, including

• Real-time data warehousing
• Real-time reporting
• OLTP query offloading
• And more.