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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. Oracle 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 as well as on-premises with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and OCI Dedicated Region.

Oracle breaks through data management boundaries

New innovations in Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse simplify and accelerate data access and data sharing across organizations and clouds at significantly reduced costs.

A simple, innovative, and fast database service

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Enabling businesses around the world

22,000

new Autonomous Database instances every month

Deploying complete data platforms

2–3 minutes

on average for each deployment

Serving demanding analytic and transaction workloads

10 billion

queries an hour every day—see the latest stats1

Enhancing and maintaining your platforms

4 million

patches and updates in 2022 with zero scheduled downtime

Keeping your businesses running

99.995%

availability—see it to believe it1

Helping you get business outcomes

100

new features and enhancements in 2022—discover them2

1. Autonomous Database daily average number of queries over the last seven days and regional average availability metrics

2. What’s New for Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure

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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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Learn how to use Autonomous Database

Get the most value out of data and analytics with Oracle Autonomous Database. Learn how it can securely integrate, store, and analyze all your data, regardless of size, type, or source location.

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Oracle is a Leader in the Gartner 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems Oracle is a Leader in the Gartner 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems

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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Read Gartner Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases. See why Oracle is named a leader.


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 a 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

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.

Applications and tools compatible with Autonomous Database

See what top industry analysts are saying about us

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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IDC: Oracle Autonomous Database provides 417% ROI

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Autonomous Database customer successes

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

May 3, 2023

Rethink your data lake with Autonomous Database

Peter Jeffcock, Senior Manager, Data Strategy, Oracle

What if you could get all the benefits of a data lake, particularly the low cost of storage and separation of elastic compute, with SQL performance up to 20X faster? With a 75% reduction in Autonomous Data Warehouse storage costs, organizations now have the flexibility to rethink and choose their data lake architecture based on their needs—storing all their data in Autonomous Database, in object store, or even both.

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Develop your Autonomous Database skills

Oracle University provides learning solutions to help build cloud skills, validate expertise, and accelerate adoption. Learn more about training and certification you can rely on to ensure your organization's success.

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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.