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Oracle database services and products offer customers cost-optimized and high-performance versions of Oracle Database, the world's leading converged, multi-model database management system, as well as in-memory, NoSQL and MySQL databases. Oracle Autonomous Database, available on premises via Oracle Cloud@Customer or in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, enables customers to simplify relational database environments and reduce management workloads.
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Announcing Oracle Database 23c
The "greatest innovation in information science in the past 20 years" is ready for the cloud and on-premises with JSON Relational Duality and other next-gen features.
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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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Oracle is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2022
See why Oracle received the highest scores in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories and received the highest possible score in the Market Presence category when evaluated alongside the other 14 most significant providers.
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AT&T runs high-scale Oracle Databases in OCI and applications in Azure
With Oracle Database Service for Azure, the telecommunications leader can modernize thousands of databases and connect them to Azure applications.
Why choose Oracle Database for all your data needs?
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IDC: Oracle Autonomous Database provides 417% ROI
Independent analyst study shows how Oracle Autonomous Database offers significant savings and 417% ROI over five years, with only 5 months to payback.
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Guard against data breaches
Assess, detect, and prevent data security threats with Oracle database security solutions for encryption, key management, data masking, privileged user access controls, activity monitoring, and auditing. Reduce the risk of a data breach and simplify and accelerate compliance.
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Use a single database for all data types and workloads
Free application developers from complex transformations and redundant data with Oracle’s converged database.
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Deploy where you need to
Deploy Oracle Database wherever required—in your data center, public cloud, or private cloud. This offers the flexibility between deployment in your data center when residency or latency are critical, or in the cloud when you want to take advantage of scalability and the broadest set of capabilities.
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Simplify application development
Make development and deployment of enterprise applications simpler with the most comprehensive database platform with both application and data services. Build SaaS apps with CI/CD, Multitenant database, Kubernetes, cloud native, and low-code technologies.
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Achieve data sovereignty and horizontal scalability
Enable globally distributed, linearly scalable, multi-model databases which meet data sovereignty requirements and support applications that require low latency and high availability. Oracle Sharding automatically places data on the desired shard, saving time and eliminating manual data preparation. Developers can treat a sharded database as a single logical database, simplifying application development.
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Less time spent managing databases
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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Run up to 3X faster than any other solution
Running Oracle Database on Exadata, the fastest platform for Oracle Database, enables customers to increase transaction rates, accelerate business analytic, and simplify IT management. Exadata is available in customer data centers and in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, enabling customers to achieve the highest levels of performance for customer-managed and Oracle Autonomous Database.
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Industry-leading Oracle Database technology in customer data centers
Oracle Database can be deployed on premises when customers have data residency and network latency concerns. Cloud@Customer deployments allow the latest Oracle Cloud technology, including Exadata and Autonomous Database, to be hosted inside the customer data center.
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Coordinate database and application upgrades
Customers with applications that are dependent on specific Oracle database versions, have complete control over the versions they run and when those versions change.
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Accelerate development of JSON-centric applications
Oracle Database fully supports schemaless application development using the JSON data model to increase developer productivity. Use Oracle Database API for MongoDB to develop and run MongoDB applications with Oracle Database—on-premises and in the cloud.
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The world’s #1 open source database in Oracle Cloud
MySQL HeatWave is a fully managed database service, powered by the integrated HeatWave in-memory query accelerator. It’s the only cloud database service that combines transactions, analytics, and machine learning services into one MySQL Database, delivering real-time, secure analytics without the complexity, latency, and cost of ETL duplication. It’s available on OCI and AWS.
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Low latency response and elastic scaling
Oracle NoSQL help developers increase their productivity by using a managed cloud service supporting document and key value data models.
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Oracle Cloud Database
A truly automated database solution
Oracle Autonomous Database is an all-in-one cloud database solution for data marts, data lakes, operational reporting, and batch data processing. Oracle uses machine learning to completely automate all routine database tasks—ensuring higher performance, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
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Oracle Database
Oracle Database offers market-leading performance, scalability, reliability, and security both on premises and in the cloud.
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Build, scale, and secure databases in the cloud
Oracle Base Database Service allows organizations to create and manage full-featured Oracle Database instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). IT teams provision databases on virtual machines with block storage volumes providing cost-efficient cloud database services with a choice of Oracle Database editions.
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The best on-premises Oracle Database system
Oracle Exadata is a full-stack solution that improves the performance, scale, security, and availability of an enterprise’s Oracle Databases. It incorporates more than 60 unique features, such as Smart Scan SQL offload, that are coengineered with Oracle Database to accelerate OLTP, analytics and machine-learning applications. Exadata also reduces capital costs and management expenses by enabling IT departments to consolidate hundreds of databases onto a single system. Companies can deploy Exadata on-premises, in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or as a Cloud@Customer solution, and use Autonomous Database to simplify and accelerate digital transformations.
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The power of Exadata Cloud in customer data centers
Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer combines the performance of Oracle Exadata with the simplicity, flexibility, and affordability of a managed database service in customer data centers. It’s the simplest way to move existing Oracle databases to the cloud because it provides full compatibility with existing Exadata systems and Exadata Cloud Service. Exadata Cloud@Customer also meets customer requirements for data sovereignty and low-latency connectivity to existing data center resources while enabling them to achieve higher database consolidation than is possible with other on-premises database cloud services.
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Robust data management with minimal complexity
Oracle Exadata is highly available and highly performant; it’s the most secure architecture for running Oracle Database. Exadata can reduce your data center footprint and accelerate time to market for mission-critical workloads.
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Multicloud database with OCI and Azure
Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure is an Oracle-managed service for Azure customers to easily provision, access, and operate enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with a familiar Azure-like experience. Users can seamlessly build Azure applications with the high performance, high availability, and automated management of Oracle Database services—such as Autonomous Database—running on OCI.
Single MySQL database for OLTP and OLAP
MySQL HeatWave is the only service that enables database admins and app developers to run OLTP and OLAP workloads directly from their MySQL database. This eliminates the need for complex, time-consuming, and expensive data movement and integration with a separate analytics database.
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High availability, data model flexibility, elastic scalability
Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service provides on-demand throughput and storage-based provisioning that supports document, columnar, and key-value data models, all with flexible transaction guarantees.
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Flexible database deployment options to fit your business strategy
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Oracle Database 19c and 21c
Explore Oracle Database, which offers you the security, flexibility, performance, and reliability to support the most demanding operational and analytical workloads on-premises or in the cloud.
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Oracle Exadata
Oracle Exadata is a full-stack solution that improves the performance, scale, security, and availability of an enterprise’s Oracle Databases. It incorporates more than 60 unique features, such as Smart Scan SQL offload, that are coengineered with Oracle Database to accelerate OLTP, analytics and machine-learning applications.
Move your database to Oracle Cloud
Seamlessly move your on-premises relational database to Oracle Cloud. We offer a cost-effective, fully automated, highly available, and scalable solution to move database workloads to the cloud.
Introducing Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release
Gerald Venzl, Senior Director, Oracle
Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release is a new, free, downloadable offering of industry-leading Oracle Database that enterprises worldwide rely on every day. It’s packaged for ease of use and a full-featured experience, making it the perfect database for anyone who wants to build and run data-driven apps. Experience the world’s only converged database that supports all data models and workload types.
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