Before you begin configuring an Oracle Globally Distributed Database with SODA, deploy a sharding configuration and start the global services.

A distributed database configuration, including shard directors, shard catalog, and shard databases, and any replicas must be deployed. After deploying the distributed database, you must create and start global database services on the shards to service incoming connection requests from your application.

See Oracle Globally Distributed Database Deployment for information about creating and deploying a distributed database configuration.