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Oracle Autonomous Database

A fully automated database service that makes it easy for all organizations to develop and deploy application workloads regardless of complexity, scale, or criticality. Autonomous Database’s converged engine supports diverse data types, simplifying application development and deployment from modeling and coding to ETL, database optimization, and data analysis. With machine-learning–driven automated tuning, scaling, and patching, Autonomous Database delivers the highest performance, availability, and security for OLTP, analytics, batch, and Internet of Things (IoT) workloads. Built on Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Database is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for shared or dedicated deployments, and on-premises with Exadata Cloud@Customer and Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer.

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Learn how Oracle Autonomous Database eliminates the complexity of operating and securing Oracle Database, while giving customers the highest levels of performance, scalability, and availability.

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Industry analysts at Nucleus Research ranked Oracle Autonomous Database #1 in recently published cloud data warehouse ratings, citing built-in support for multi-model data and multiple parallel workloads.

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Discover how InfStones, an enterprise-grade PaaS blockchain infrastructure provider, was able to leverage Autonomous JSON Database to build a low-latency query service over billions of blockchain records.

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Oracle was named a Leader in the “2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems” and scored highest in the 2022 Gartner "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases."

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Why choose Autonomous Database?

Autonomous Database solutions

For simpler, faster transactions

A fully automated database service optimized to run transactional, analytical, and batch workloads concurrently. To accelerate performance, it is preconfigured for row format, indexes, and data caching, while providing scalability, availability, transparent security, and real-time operational analytics. With Autonomous Database, application developers and DBAs can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively develop and deploy applications without sacrificing functionality or ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) properties.

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Use cases
  • Transaction processing applications
  • Mission-critical applications
  • Mixed-workload applications
  • Cloud native applications
  • Low-code applications
  • Business applications

Take control of all your data with a converged database and automation

A fully automated cloud database service optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, and data lakes. It is preconfigured with columnar format, partitioning, and large joins to simplify and accelerate database provisioning, extracting, loading, and transforming data; running sophisticated reports; generating predictions; and creating machine learning models. With Autonomous Database, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type.

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Use cases
  • Enterprise Data Warehouse
  • Data lakes
  • Departmental Data Warehouse
  • Data science and machine learning
  • Data and IoT event streams

Develop JSON-centric applications with simple, fast, serverless cloud document database service

Oracle Autonomous JSON Database (AJD) is a version of Oracle Autonomous Database exclusively for transactions and analytics on JSON data, and includes a MongoDB API.

Use cases
  • Mobile applications
  • Applications with dynamic personalized experiences
  • Content and catalog management
  • Integrated IoT applications
  • Digital payment applications

Build applications faster

APEX App Dev is built into Oracle Autonomous Database for developing and running transactional or analytic low-code apps. Build apps 38X faster than traditional coding.

Use cases
  • Opportunistic apps
  • Data sharing
  • Replace spreadsheets
  • ISV Applications
  • Oracle Forms modernization

Applications and tools compatible with Autonomous Database

Autonomous Database capabilities

Machine Learning

Build and deploy machine learning models using built-in algorithms.

Graph Analytics

Apply pattern recognition, classification, and statistical analysis to large datasets.

Spatial Analytics

Analyze geospatial data and offer insights to business opportunities across industries.

Low Code App Dev

Build and deploy modern, data-driven applications 38X faster than regular coding.

Self-Service Data Management

Load and transform data, generate business models, and discover anomalies, and hidden patterns quickly.

Data Protection and Security

Discover sensitive data, evaluate security risks, monitor, and enforce security controls automatically.

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Wikibon finds Oracle Autonomous Database is 50% lower cost than AWS

Wikibon finds Oracle Autonomous Database is 50% lower cost than AWS

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KuppingerCole: Oracle Autonomous Database is ranked #1 overall for Cloud Database and Big Data security

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dbInsight finds Oracle the first to deliver a self-driving database in both the cloud and on-premises

IDC: Oracle Autonomous Database provides 417% ROI

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Learn how Oracle customers are using Oracle Autonomous Database to transform their businesses by redefining database management through machine learning and automation.

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Autonomous Database benefits

Autonomous Database deployment

Autonomous Database services offer multiple deployment possibilities for lowest cost, operational control, and isolation.

Shared infrastructure


  • Fully automated deployment of resources—pay for what you use
  • Lowest cost to get started with no minimum commitment requirement

Dedicated infrastructure


  • Complete isolation of your data and operations, with a private dedicated database cloud within public cloud
  • Dedicated system resources—such as processor, memory, network, or storage—offer greater control over operational policies and customizations

Cloud@Customer infrastructure


  • Autonomous Database in your data center to meet regulatory, data residency, or network latency requirements for workloads that cannot move to public cloud
  • Enables IT to easily deliver self-service databases to business users and developers while ensuring security and governance of all data

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Oracle and Microsoft Simplify the Path to Multicloud Choice
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1. IDC report: Ensuring a Fast, Reliable, and Secure Database Through Automation (PDF)

2. The GARTNER PEER INSIGHTS Logo is a trademark and service mark of Gartner Inc., and/or its affiliates, and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-user reviews, ratings, and data applied against a documented methodology; they neither represent the views of, nor constitute an endorsement by, Gartner or its affiliates.

3. The SLA for 99.995% availability assumes the use of Oracle Autonomous Data Guard. The SLA is 99.95% when Autonomous Data Guard isn’t enabled.