Base Database Service
Oracle Base Database Service runs Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition workloads on flexible virtual machine (VM) shapes on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Mulitcloud, and Cloud@Customer. The service provides automated database lifecycle management that reduces administration, built-in low-code application development that accelerates new application deployment, and compute scaling with pay-as-you-go pricing that lowers costs.
A scalable, full-featured Oracle AI Database service
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Easily build AI-enabled apps with AI Vector Search and write less code using Oracle APEX—both at no additional cost
Pay-as-you-go with license included and Bring Your Own License (BYOL) pricing options.
Protect databases in real time and recover faster with the fully managed Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service or Recovery Appliance.
Meet flexible workload and storage demands by independently scaling compute and storage.
Reduce labor while maintaining control with built-in database lifecycle automation.
Address data residency, security, compliance, latency, and application-dependency requirements that keep workloads at customer locations with Cloud@Customer.
Why choose Base Database Service?
Oracle Base Database Service delivers the full capabilities of Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition on optimized Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resources for predictably fast performance and high availability. It includes Oracle Deep Data Security, Transparent Data Encryption, and a wide range of built-in security capabilities to help protect private business data.
Using Oracle AI Database's converged architecture, the service supports virtually any data type, workload, and development style, and includes AI Vector Search, Machine Learning, Graph, Spatial, blockchain, and JSON Schema at no additional charge.
With availability across OCI's public cloud regions, Oracle's multicloud offerings, and Cloud@Customer hybrid cloud, you have the flexibility to run Base Database Service wherever your data and applications need to reside.
Simple
Easily create and deploy applications by using built-in low-code development tools and Oracle AI Database capabilities, such as AI Vector Search and JSON-relational duality.
Versatile
Satisfy a broad range of application and business requirements by using a choice of flexible x86, AMD, Intel, and Ampere virtual machine shapes with high performance storage.
Compatible
Easily move on-premises workloads to the cloud by using the same features they employ on-premises, while also benefiting from cloud automation.
Multilevel security
Protect databases with always-on encryption, Oracle Data Safe security console, the Oracle AI Database SQL Firewall, and robust OCI safeguards.
Flexible Locations
Accelerate innovation and cloud migration with the power and flexibility to deploy Base Database Service on OCI Public Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloud@Customer. Combine the best of the cloud with your data to quickly build and modernize applications.
Service editions
All service editions include Oracle Transparent Data Encryption, Oracle APEX, Oracle Machine Learning, Spatial, and Graph capabilities at no additional cost. Oracle AI Database also includes AI Vector Search, JSON Relational Duality, True Cache, and other new features—at no additional cost. These built-in capabilities allow developers to easily add new capabilities to existing applications or create new ones without having to integrate multiple single-purpose services.
Standard Edition
Includes Oracle AI Database Standard Edition 2 and provides flexible virtual machine infrastructure with consumption-based pricing
Enterprise Edition
Includes Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition, Data Masking and Subsetting Pack, Diagnostics and Tuning Packs, and Real Application Testing.
Enterprise Edition High Performance
Extends Enterprise Edition with multitenant, partitioning, advanced compression, advanced security, label security, Database Vault, OLAP, Database Lifecycle Management Pack, and Cloud Management Pack for Oracle AI Database.
Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance
Further extends Enterprise Edition High Performance with Oracle RAC, In-Memory Database, Active Data Guard, and Globally Distributed Database for higher service levels
Base Database Service customers' success stories
Typical Use Cases
Migrate on-premises applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Move Oracle, ISV, and custom applications to OCI with Base Database Service to increase business agility, IT efficiency, and availability.
Develop modern cloud native applications
Add AI functionality to existing applications or create new ones using AI Vector Search and rapidly create and deploy new applications using Oracle APEX.
Improve data protection
Safeguard critical databases against loss, theft, and ransomware by automatically protecting them through their last committed transaction and providing fast, predictable recoveries.
Address data residency requirements with a hybrid cloud
Keep data at customer locations to help address residency requirements while providing low-latency cloud database access to your applications and maintan integration with existing systems. Provision a complete hybrid cloud solution for databases and applications on the same infrastructure.
Run Oracle AI Database Your Way On OCI
Provision full-featured Oracle databases in virtual machines on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that combine the power of Oracle AI Database with automation, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go economics—letting you patch, backup, and scale your databases in minutes.
Flexible compute shapes
- Select the generation-agnostic x86 shape to run without disruptions and have Oracle manage hardware transitions
- Select AMD or Intel shapes to migrate to the same processor as your source database
- Select the Ampere shape for a development environment with a zero-cost Oracle Database license
Less administration
- Reduce manual tasks through cloud automation
- Support cloud mandates for current on-premises workloads with a simple path to start benefiting from cloud economics and automation
Simple and rapid development
- Build modern cloud native AI applications on a single converged database
- Rapidly build applications with Oracle APEX using zero-cost Oracle Database licenses in OCI
Data where your apps are
Your applications don't all live in one cloud and your data shouldn't either. Run Base Database Service natively on Oracle AI Database@Azure and Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud, placing your Oracle databases right next to the applictions that depend on them. Enjoy low-latency, co-located performance with automated provisioning, patching, backup, and pay-as-you-go scaling where your applications already run.
Simple and efficient database lifecycle management
- Increase administrator productivity with cloud automation for provisioning, updates, backups, disaster recovery, and more
- Use Web and API-driven lifecycle operations
Cloud economics
- Pay only for the database consumption you use
- Bring Your Own License (BYOL) or choose from 3 tiers of License-included Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition (EE), or EE High Performance
Private AI for data, anywhere
Deploy Oracle AI Database at customer locations for departments, branch offices, and remote sites with a low entry cost on Oracle Data Infrastructure Cloud@Customer, while retaining full physical control of data. Helps customers deploy private agentic AI workloads, address data residency, industry regulations, corporate policies, network connectivity, and security requirements. Benefit from cloud automation, Oracle managed infrastructure, and pay-per-use database licensing.
Versatile, hybrid-cloud databases
- Deploy Oracle AI Database and all database features and options
- Run Oracle RAC and/or single-instance databases
- Simplify database lifecyle management with cloud automation
- Scale database VMs online
Application VMs and AI Agents run on the same infrastructure
- Isolate application with low latency access to databases
- Deploy AI agents using Private AI Services Container and Private Agent Factory
Low cost with pay-per-use database licensing
- Bring Your Own License (BYOL) or choose from 4 tiers of License-included Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition (EE), EE High Performance, or EE Extreme Performance
Specifications
- Two compute servers, each with 60 usable processor cores and 660 GB of usable memory
- 11.6 TB of usable high performance SSD storage, scalable up to 47.2 TB usable
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