Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS)

Developers choose ORDS for its streamlined and efficient approach to creating REST APIs. ORDS serves as a critical bridge between the Oracle AI Database and modern development practices—including microservices, CI/CD workflows, LLMs, generative AI, vector search, graph queries, polyglot applications, and more.

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ORDS 101 LiveLab

This lab will walk you through creating a REST service using ORDS on an Autonomous Database

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ORDS also available on the Oracle AI Database 26ai Free Virtualbox and Docker Container

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Overview

Built for the Oracle converged database. Zero Libraries, ORMs no longer required. ORDS allows application developers to focus on building REST APIS in a fast, framework-agnostic, secure, and scalable way. With ORDS, developers can quickly turn database objects, SQL, and PL/SQL procedures and functions into REST APIs, storing them directly in the Oracle database. Applications backed by ORDS become more flexible too since we natively support results filtering, sorting, pagination, dynamic query parameters, and automatically-generated OpenAPI specification documents for your entire API catalogue.

SQL Developer Web

Database Actions brings you your favorite Oracle Database desktop tool’s features and experience to your browser! Delivered as a single-page web application, Database Actions is powered by Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS). Database Actions offers, a worksheet for running queries and scripts, the ability to manage and browse your data dictionary, a REST development environment for your REST APIs and AUTOREST enabled objects, an interface for Oracle’s JSON Document Store (SODA), a DBA console for managing the database, a data model reporting solution, and access to PerfHub.

Database API

Provides the ability to perform Oracle Database management and monitoring operations through a user-friendly REST API. Depending on the database version and configuration, ORDS database APIs provide services such as manage pluggable databases, export data, and review database performance.

Docker Container

This image is purposefully built to provide all the ORDS services on a simple container. Users will be able to bind mount (folders or docker volumes) configurations, wallets, certificates, APEX images, etc. and with the Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) command line interface user will be able to configure/install or run ORDS services in one or multiple container.

Oracle API for MongoDB

Oracle Database API for MongoDB translates the MongoDB wire protocol into SQL statements that are executed by Oracle Database. It lets developers who have MongoDB skill sets write JSON document-store applications for Oracle Database that use drivers and tools that understand the MongoDB protocol.

Oracle Database Insider

Part 1 - How to Secure Oracle Database REST APIs

November 2025

In part one of this tutorial, you’ll learn how to configure OCI Identity and Access Management (OCI IAM) so that Roles-Based Access Control claims (RBACs) are made available in your JSON Web Tokens (JWTs).

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ORACLE DATABASE INSIDEREnabling the MongoDB API for ORDS containers just got a lot easier
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ORACLE DATABASE INSIDERAdvanced ORDS REST handlers written in JavaScript

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