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Autonomous AI Database Select AI

Gain quick insights into your business by analyzing data in natural language, regardless of where it's stored

Build RAG Apps in Two Steps with Oracle Autonomous AI Database (2:55)
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Experience Select AI with a wide range of hands-on workshops. Create a chat app, develop an AI RAG app, integrate Select AI with analytics, and more.

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Oracle AI Database 26ai powers the AI for data revolution

Oracle's flagship database now seamlessly integrates AI into its core, enhancing all major data types and workloads

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Build smart AI agents with Select AI

Harness agentic AI to streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and automate tasks using Select AI’s straightforward framework and a suite of pre-built AI agents

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Build applications using Select AI for Python

Use Select AI natively with the rich Python ecosystem to power AI-driven applications like chatbots and retrieve AI-generated results into Python data structures using  synchronous and asynchronous interaction 

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Why Autonomous AI Database Select AI?

  • Immediate business insight for analysts

    Accelerate insights from your data with natural language SQL query generation and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), reducing IT wait times and minimizing manual processes


  • Accelerated innovation

    Enhance or build applications with generative AI across structured and unstructured data, boosting developer productivity by automating the AI pipeline for query generation, RAG, and AI agents


  • Choice of AI providers

    Choose your preferred LLMs and embedding models from various providers or opt for privately hosted models, all without the need for manual integration


  • Flexible development interfaces

    Access Select AI via SQL, PL/SQL, and Python interfaces to engage users with chat, convert natural language to SQL, and utilize AI agents in an Oracle APEX-based chatbot


  • Built-in security

    Benefit from enterprise-grade database security with features like data masking, Virtual Private Database, and Real Application Security, alongside comprehensive audit trails and read-only sessions


  • Use on premises and in the cloud

    Use with all flavors of Oracle Autonomous AI Database and Oracle AI Database 26ai and 19c including multi-cloud with AWS, Azure, GCP


  • Supercharge your SQL with AI

    Embed AI capabilities directly within your SQL queries to create scalable pipelines for AI-driven content generation, filtering, and aggregation, leveraging the core Oracle SQL engine for efficient, cost-effective processing and seamless integration of generative AI


  • Create AI agents and MCP tools

    Leverage the Select AI Agent framework to build, deploy, and manage AI agents directly within your database, utilizing both custom and pre-built tools for seamless multi-turn conversations, and enable direct use through the Autonomous AI Database MCP Server


Key use cases of Autonomous AI Database Select AI

 

Natural language to SQL query generation

Enable database developers to write and understand SQL queries for application development, summarize query results in prose, and provide feedback for automated prompt tuning to enhance accuracy

Customizable conversations

Enable chatbot-style, multi-turn dialogs that maintain context for follow-ups, manage multiple conversations with optionally LLM-generated titles and descriptions, set conversation retention period and maximum length, and access and edit content

AI agents

Build, deploy, and run AI agents fully managed by Autonomous AI Database and develop conversational agentic workflows using a wide range of AI providers, AI models, and tools - get started quickly with pre-built AI agents on GitHub

Personalized content creation

Generate personalized media, like customer emails, using custom prompts infused with individual data to enhance relevance and engagement, or employ your LLM for sentiment analysis and recommendations

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

Get more relevant and accurate responses by leveraging content from your trusted, private documents and utilizing transformers from your AI provider or imported ONNX-format transformers with the in-database ONNX Runtime

Synthetic data generation

Generate schema-conformant synthetic data for development, testing, and proofs of concept, ensuring sensitive data protection while enhancing application development, system testing, and debugging

How Autonomous AI Database Select AI works

Select AI NL2SQL

Converse with your data

  

Select AI NL2SQL

Generate targeted personalized content

  

Select AI NL2SQL

Build automated AI pipeline

 

Enable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

  

March 2026

Announcing Oracle Select AI Pre-Built AI Agents

Mark Hornick, Senior Director, AI and ML Product Management, Oracle

With the new Select AI pre-built AI agents, Oracle takes you from zero to 60 with a rich suite of AI-powered agents implemented using the Oracle Select AI Agent framework, making it simple for organizations to install, use, and customize agentic capabilities, all running securely on Oracle AI Database, including Oracle Autonomous AI Database.

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    • Two Autonomous AI Database instances, 20 GB each
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    • 200 GB total block storage
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    • 10 TB outbound data transfer per month
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