Oracle AI Vector Search

Easily bring the power of similarity search to your business data without having to manage and integrate multiple databases. AI Vector Search enables you to search structured and unstructured data based on its semantics or meaning, in addition to its values. Native vector capabilities can help large language models (LLMs) deliver more-accurate and contextually relevant results with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Oracle Vector Search: Powering the Modern Enterprise (2:43)
Zapowiedź: Generative Development for Enterprise (GenDev)

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  • The simplicity of a single database

    Easily combine similarity search with relational, text, JSON, spatial, and graph data types to enhance your apps—all in a single database.

  • Converse in natural language with business data

    Enable natural language search across your private business data using RAG to guide the LLM of your choice.

  • Develop AI apps your way

    Use your favorite development tools, AI frameworks, and languages to build AI apps.

  • AI built for enterprise

    Build mission-critical AI apps with ease. Leverage industrial-strength capabilities to achieve scalability, performance, high availability, and security.

Announcing General Availability: AI Vector Search

Ready to level up your AppDev experience? Leverage the latest AI Vector Search capabilities with Oracle Database 23ai. Learn how to get started today.

The future of data and AppDev

Oracle introduced an integrated vector database to augment generative AI and dramatically increase developer productivity at CloudWorld 2023.

Demo: Accelerate semantic search with AI Vector Search

Learn how AI Vector Search in Oracle Database 23ai combines semantic and business data for faster, more accurate, and more secure results.

“We are happy to see AI Vector Search added to Oracle Database. We appreciate that we can run AI Vector Search in the same Oracle Database as our other workloads, which allows us to provide a reliable and secure solution.”

Shinichiro Otsuka NRI Certified IT Architect, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

Key features of Oracle AI Vector Search

VECTOR data type

Use the new native VECTOR data type to store vectors directly in Oracle Database 23ai. Simplify applications by supporting vectors with different dimension counts and formats.

Flexible vector generation

Import embedding models of your choice using the ONNX framework and use them to generate vectors for your data. Optionally import vectors directly into the database.

Vector indexes

Accelerate similarity searches using vector indexes, such as the in-memory neighbor graph index for high accuracy and maximum performance and neighbor partition indexes for massive data sets.

SQL extensions for querying vectors

Use simple, intuitive extensions to SQL for similarity search on vectors within sophisticated queries on relational, text, JSON, and other data types.

Simple target accuracy specification

Specify target search accuracy instead of using obscure, low-level, index-specific parameters. Define default accuracy during index creation and override in search queries if needed.

Exadata optimizations

Accelerate vector index creation and search with Exadata System Software 24ai optimizations. Gain the high performance, scale, and availability Exadata provides to enterprise databases.

Oracle AI Vector Search use cases

RAG uses the results of similarity search to improve the accuracy and contextual relevance of large language model responses to questions about business data. RAG helps identify contextually relevant private data that the LLM may not have been trained on and then uses it to augment user prompts so LLMs can respond with greater accuracy.

The desire to get higher quality answers from LLMs is universal, spanning many industries. Some examples of using RAG for improved accuracy include the following:

  • Chatbots for internal and external users
  • Document searches and summaries
  • Language to code synthesis
  • Answers to questions that require specialized, domain-specific knowledge

RAG helps organizations provide customized answers to business questions without the high cost of retraining or fine-tuning the LLMs.

Retrieval augmented generation diagram, description below
  1. A chatbot enables a dialog with an LLM.
  2. Run similarity search on your private business data and pass those facts to the LLM.
  3. The results are formatted as a prompt and context for the LLM.
  4. The LMM receives up to date business data inputs thereby reducing hallucinations.
  5. The high-quality responses are returned to the chatbot.


September 10, 2024

Using NVIDIA GPUs to Accelerate AI Vector Search in Oracle Database 23ai

Tirthankar Lahiri, Senior Vice President, Mission-Critical Data and AI Engines
Shasank Chavan, Vice President, Data, In-Memory and AI Technologies
Weiwei Gong, Senior Director, Vector Flow Analytics

At Oracle CloudWorld 2024, we are demonstrating two GPU-accelerated capabilities for Oracle Database that utilize NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate AI Vector Search functionality in Oracle Database 23ai. The first capability is the GPU-accelerated creation of vector embeddings from a variety of different input data sets, such as text, images, and videos. The second is an early-stage proof of concept that illustrates how GPUs can be used to accelerate vector index creation and maintenance within Oracle Database.

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