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Oracle offers customers cost-optimized and high performance versions of Oracle AI Database, the world's leading converged, multimodel database management system, as well as HeatWave MySQL and NoSQL databases. Oracle Autonomous AI Database, available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or on-premises via Oracle Cloud@Customer and Dedicated Region, enables customers to simplify relational database environments and reduce management workloads.

Oracle AI Database 26ai Powers the AI for Data Revolution

Oracle has architected AI into the core of Oracle AI Database 26ai, furthering Oracle’s commitment to helping customers securely bring AI to all their data, everywhere.

Why choose Oracle databases for all your data needs?

  • Bring AI to your data

    Efficiently and securely process your data where it already resides with advanced AI capabilities that enable you to reduce costs while gaining real-time insights.

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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.

    IDC: Security Benefits of Oracle Autonomous Database (PDF)

  • 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 AI 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 GenAI-powered low-code technologies.

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  • Achieve data sovereignty and horizontal scalability

    Enable globally distributed, linearly scalable, multimodel databases, which meet data sovereignty requirements and offer low latency and high availability. Automatically place data on the desired shard, eliminating manual data preparation. Developers can treat a sharded database as a single logical database, simplifying application development.

    Learn more about Oracle Globally Distributed AI Database

Choose the deployment option that works best for you

  • Oracle AI Database at your location

    Run Oracle AI Database at your own location on your own hardware. Or, use Oracle Exadata in your data center for best performance, flexibility, and robustness.

    Oracle Exadata

  • Oracle Cloud technology at your location

    The best platform for Oracle AI Database, delivered securely behind your firewall and managed by Oracle.

    Cloud@Customer

  • Oracle AI 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.

    AI Database cloud services

  • Oracle AI Database in multicloud environments

    Database applications achieve high performance, scale, and availability in your selected hyperscaler by using Oracle AI Database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which is collocated in the hyperscaler’s data centers and deeply integrated with the hyperscaler’s console and API.

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Which database is right for you?

Less time spent managing databases

Oracle Autonomous AI Database eliminates the complexity of operating and securing Oracle AI Database, while giving customers the highest levels of performance, scalability, and availability.

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Run up to 3X faster

Running Oracle AI Database on Exadata, the fastest platform for Oracle AI 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 AI Database.

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Industry-leading Oracle AI Database technology in customer data centers

Oracle AI 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 AI 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 AI 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 AI Database—on-premises and in the cloud.

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The world’s most popular open source database in Oracle Cloud

Improve MySQL query performance by orders of magnitude and get real-time analytics on your transactional data—without the complexity, latency, risks, and cost of extract, transform, and load (ETL) duplication to a separate analytics database. Enhance data security and deploy MySQL HeatWave–powered apps in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure.

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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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Database technologies in Oracle Cloud

A truly automated database solution

Oracle Autonomous AI 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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Robust data management with minimal complexity

Oracle Exadata is highly available and highly performant; it’s the most secure architecture for running Oracle AI Database. Exadata can reduce your data center footprint and accelerate time to market for mission-critical workloads.

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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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Build, scale, and secure databases in the cloud

Oracle Base Database Service allows organizations to create and manage full-featured Oracle AI 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 AI Database editions.

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Deploy Oracle AI Database services in any leading cloud

Accelerate innovation and cloud migration with Oracle AI Database services running in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud data centers. Combine the best of the cloud with your data to quickly build and modernize applications.

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Single MySQL database for OLTP and OLAP

HeatWave MySQL 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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October 14, 2025

Introducing Oracle AI Database 26ai: Next-Gen AI-Native Database for All Your Data

Jenny Tsai-Smith, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Oracle
Dom Giles, Vice President, Database Product Management, Oracle

We are thrilled to introduce Oracle AI Database 26ai, our next-generation AI-native database, with AI architected into the entire data and development stack. Oracle AI Database enables you to easily deliver trusted AI-powered insights, innovations, and productivity for all your data everywhere, including both operational systems and analytic data lakes. You can now run dynamic agentic AI workflows to provide sophisticated answers and actions that combine private database data with public information.

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