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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Run MongoDB workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by migrating applications written for MongoDB to Oracle Autonomous JSON Database. Developers can continue to use MongoDB's open source tools and drivers using the new API for MongoDB.
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Why choose Autonomous Database?
Self-driving: Automate database provisioning, tuning, and scaling
Provisions highly available databases, configures and tunes for specific workloads, and scales compute resources when needed, all done automatically.
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Self-securing: Automate data protection and security
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)Self-repairing: Automate failure detection, failover, and repair
Detect and protect from system failures and user errors automatically and provide failover to standby databases with zero data loss.
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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.
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
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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.
Autonomous Database benefits
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Lower costs with autoscaling and per-second billing
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)
IDC report: AI-Based Automation for Database Management (PDF)
Why customers choose Oracle Autonomous Database over Amazon Redshift
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Reduce risk with Oracle Data Safe and self-securing features
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.
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Innovate more with Oracle Machine Learning
Use Autonomous Database to build, evaluate, and easily deploy machine learning models.
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Support high-availability requirements with SLAs covering complete database service lifecycles
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)
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
Cloud has fundamentally changed the way organizations develop applications, secure data, and manage infrastructure. The ability to quickly provision resources, scale on demand, and deploy globally has created new opportunities to innovate. In 2022, IDC expects spending on cloud infrastructure to outpace non-cloud infrastructure for the first time.
Featured blogs
- July 28, 2022 Autonomous Database Newsletter
- July 12, 2022 OML Notebooks plus APEX for Fast/Easy Deployment of Machine Learning Models
- MARCH 16, 2022 Multiple VM Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer Debuts
- MARCH 2, 2022 Migrating from AWS RDS to Oracle Autonomous Database via Data Pump
- FEBRUARY 15, 2022 At Last, MongoDB Developers Get Full Autonomous Capabilities
- FEBRUARY 11, 2022 Database Tools in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Autonomous Database resources
Learn more
- What’s new for Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure?
- What’s new for Oracle Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure?
- Autonomous Database for transaction processing and mixed workloads documentation and tutorials
- Autonomous Database for analytics and data warehousing documentation and tutorials
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- Learn how Autonomous Database powers Oracle’s own cloud services and internal applications
- What is a data mart?
- IDC report: Ensuring a Fast, Reliable, and Secure Database Through Automation (PDF)
- What is cloud data platform?
- Business brief: Building Applications with Self-Managing Databases (PDF)
- Technical overview: Oracle Autonomous Database (PDF)
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1. IDC report: Ensuring a Fast, Reliable, and Secure Database Through Automation (PDF)
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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.