Oracle Database Technologies
Oracle Database offers market-leading performance, scalability, reliability, and security, both on-premises and in the cloud. Oracle Database 19c is the current long-term release, and it provides the highest level of release stability and longest time frame for support and bug fixes.
Oracle Database 21c, also available for production use today as an innovation release, provides an early insight into the many enhancements and new capabilities. These include autonomous administration, improved multimodel support through in-database JavaScript and native blockchain tables, and multiworkload improvements such as AutoML and sharding enhancements that will be incorporated into future long-term releases.
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Oracle introduces integrated vector database to augment generative AI and dramatically increase developer productivity
New AI vector similarity search in Oracle Database 23c allows the combination of search in semantic and business data to provide highly accurate answers quickly and securely.
The latest release enables faster, more efficient development of enterprise-level low-code applications that are deployed across all platforms.
The expanded Oracle-Microsoft partnership, announced by Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella, delivers Oracle database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.
Get the best performance for your most demanding analytical and operational workloads. Learn more about upgrading to Oracle Database 19c.
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."
Database services, solutions, and features
Utilize data warehousing on-premises or in the cloud
Advanced data warehousing and analytics technologies, such as Oracle Database In-Memory and Oracle Multitenant, enable analytics teams to complete more in-depth analyses of scalable data warehouses in less time. Customers develop deeper, data-driven insights using Oracle Database technologies on-premises or in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Comprehensive, scalable app development
Developers can quickly create scalable, high-performance applications using SQL, JSON, XML, and a range of procedural languages. Oracle Database 19c offers a range of built-in development tools, such as APEX, and converged database capabilities.
- Java
- Machine Learning
- .Net
- Node.js
- Oracle APEX
- Oracle JSON Document Database
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Implementing DevOps principles (PDF)
- Oracle Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ)
(Messaging, Pub/Sub, and Kafka interoperability) - Oracle Database API for MongoDB
- Python
- Spatial and Graph features
- SQL
- Oracle Databases for Containers and Kubernetes
Comprehensive, high availability capabilities
Oracle Database 19c includes built-in capabilities and options, including Oracle Active Data Guard and Oracle Real Application Clusters, that enable efficient, scaling and consolidation of customer databases. IT teams use the same capabilities on-premises and in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run protect crucial customer databases and maximize their availability.
Faster, better data-driven decisions
Oracle Database accelerates machine learning (ML) with powerful algorithms that run inside the database so customers can build and run ML models without having to move or reformat data. Data scientists leverage Python, R, SQL, and other tools to integrate ML capabilities into database applications and deliver analytics results in easy-to-use dashboards.
Integrated, enterprise-wide Oracle Database management
Increase enterprise-wide database performance and availability with consistent management processes via a single-pane-of-glass management dashboard. DBAs reduce their workloads by consolidating the monitoring and management of databases running on premises, in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and in third-party clouds with Oracle database management solutions.
Optimized database performance throughout the enterprise
Meet stringent performance requirements in real-time environments and data center deployments, with a range of capabilities designed for optimized low-latency and high-throughput.
Protect crucial data
Oracle’s database security solutions reduce the risk of data breaches and make it easier for customers to meet compliance requirements. Encryption, data masking, privileged user access controls, activity monitoring, and auditing enable IT teams to strongly secure Oracle Database environments and understand potential vulnerabilities.
Agile, flexible, and secure database management
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s suite of optimized database capabilities enable customers to operate efficiently and at low cost, by closely aligning resources to their specific needs.
Companies implement digital transformations with Oracle’s full portfolio of database cloud services, including the fully managed Autonomous Database and the automated Exadata Database Service, with Exadata Cloud@Customer in distributed data centers and in Microsoft Azure using deeply integrated Oracle Database services in OCI that are colocated in Azure data centers.
- Autonomous Data Warehouse
- Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Autonomous JSON Database
- Oracle APEX
- Oracle Database@Azure
- Oracle Exadata Database Service
- Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer solutions
- Oracle Base Database Service
- Oracle MySQL Database Service
- Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service
- Oracle Zero Downtime Migration
Other database products
Oracle’s wide range of industry-leading data management solutions make it easier for customers to meet diverse on premises and cloud requirements. Enterprises of all sizes innovate with the world’s most advanced database, the most popular open source database, and high-performance in-memory and NoSQL solutions.
Better answers by combining semantic and business data
AI Vector Search includes a new vector data type, vector indexes, and vector search SQL operators that enable Oracle Database to store the semantic content of documents, images, and other unstructured data as vectors and use these to run fast similarity queries. These new capabilities support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a breakthrough generative AI technique that combines large language models (LLMs) with private business data to deliver responses to natural language questions. RAG provides more accurate answers and avoids having to expose private data by including it in the LLM training data.
Upgrade and/or migrate your database today
Upgrade to the latest Oracle Database technology to benefit from market-leading performance, availability, and security. Migrate your database to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to combine low cost with high performance.
Choose the deployment option that works best for you
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Oracle Database at your location
Run Oracle Database at your own location on your own hardware. Or, use Oracle Exadata in your data center for best performance, flexibility, and robustness.
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Oracle Cloud technology at your location
The best platform for Oracle Database, delivered securely behind your firewall and managed by Oracle.
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Oracle Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Benefit from the computing power, physical storage, and tooling that simplify routine database management operations as well as Oracle’s highest-performance engineered system, designed specifically for running enterprise-scale cloud databases.
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Oracle Database in multicloud environments
Database applications achieve high performance, scale, and availability in Azure by using Oracle Database services that are deeply integrated with Azure and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure colocated in Azure data centers.
Database customer successes
See how customers are using Oracle Database to transform their business and engage their customers in new and better ways.
Oracle Database 23c: The next long-term support release
Dominic Giles, Master Product Manager, Oracle
The latest version of the world’s most powerful database, Oracle Database 23c, is now generally available on Oracle Base Database Service on OCI. Along with many other enhancements, the release empowers developers and simplifies the use of AI in a database renowned for its unparalleled support for high availability, performance, and security. Additionally, the new release enhances Oracle Database’s industry-leading converged database approach—supporting JSON, XML, Graph, Spatial, text, and relational—for any workload, while allowing developers to choose any development style. Discover the new features and get additional resources that help you navigate this exciting new release.
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