Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated service that makes it easy for all organizations to develop and deploy application workloads, regardless of complexity, scale, or criticality. The service’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 serverless or dedicated deployments as well as on-premises with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and OCI Dedicated Region.
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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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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
Provisions highly available databases, configures and tunes for specific workloads, and scales compute resources when needed, all done automatically.
Read the Autonomous Database strategy business brief (PDF)Protect sensitive and regulated data automatically, patch your database for security vulnerabilities, and prevent unauthorized access—all with Oracle Autonomous Database.
Read the business brief on the first self-securing database (PDF)Detect and protect from system failures and user errors automatically and provide failover to standby databases with zero data loss.
Read the technical brief on the first self-repairing database (PDF)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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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.
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.
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.
Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure lets organizations run workloads where they choose, modernize and innovate with Oracle and Azure services, and simplify cloud purchasing and management. Customers combine Azure services of their choosing with Autonomous Database, an OCI service that’s deeply integrated with and colocated in Azure data centers, achieving high performance, scale, and availability for their Oracle Database workloads.
Oracle Globally Distributed Autonomous Database is a fully automated distributed cloud database that’s easy to use, develop with, and manage. Its shared-nothing, sharded architecture is built on top of Oracle Autonomous Database, letting transaction processing and analytics applications benefit from hyperscale performance and scalability as well as extreme availability. Organizations can easily meet data residency requirements and the needs of distributed global users.
Build and deploy machine learning models using built-in algorithms, and answer natural language questions using organizational data.
Apply pattern recognition, classification, and statistical analysis to large data sets.
Analyze geospatial data and offer insights to business opportunities across industries.
Build and deploy modern, data-driven applications 38X faster than regular coding.
Load and transform data, generate business models, and quickly discover anomalies and hidden patterns.
Discover sensitive data, evaluate security risks, and automatically monitor and enforce security controls.
Wikibon finds Oracle Autonomous Database is 50% lower cost than AWS
Read the Wikibon report (PDF)KuppingerCole: Oracle Autonomous Database is ranked #1 overall for Cloud Database and Big Data security
Read the KuppingerCole report (PDF)IDC: Oracle Autonomous Database provides 417% ROI
Read the IDC report (PDF)Learn how Oracle customers are using Oracle Autonomous Database to transform their businesses by redefining database management through machine learning and automation.
Use autoprovisioning and autotuning to simplify the creation and optimization of all data stores in the cloud. Start with the lowest cost and commitment, and autoscale as the business grows.
IDC report: Autonomous Database enables a 455% ROI for d.light (PDF)
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Why customers choose Oracle Autonomous Database over Amazon Redshift
Protect sensitive data and accelerate compliance with Oracle Data Safe, a database security cloud service that's included with Autonomous Database, in addition to zero-downtime patching, always-on encryption, and more.
Learn more about the security benefits of Autonomous Database (PDF)
Use Autonomous Database to build, evaluate, and easily deploy machine learning models.
Read the Harvard Business Review report on intelligent automation (PDF)
Autonomous Database's 99.995% availability3 service level agreement (SLA) includes the complete database service lifecycle. Most cloud vendor database services exclude downtime resulting from key lifecycle operations, such as planned maintenance or downtime due to crashes in the underlying database engine. Autonomous Database offers end-to-end financially backed SLAs covering performance, availability, and manageability of services.
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Technical brief series: The industry's first self-repairing database (PDF)
Leverage Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service to improve operational efficiency with automated backup, enhanced data protection metrics including real-time recoverability status, and fast, predictable recovery.
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Autonomous Database services offer multiple deployment possibilities for lowest cost, operational control, and isolation.
George Lumpkin, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle
Continuing our key themes to simplify customer innovations and reduce operational costs, Oracle has announced several new Autonomous Database features at Oracle ClouldWorld. With the Select AI feature, Autonomous Database now speaks “human” and lets users ask any questions with natural language. Developers have a new free and offline AppDev option with Autonomous Database Free Container Image, and organizations save operational costs by consolidating compute resources in the Elastic Resource Pools feature. Discover more about the new and innovative capabilities now available in Autonomous Database.
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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.