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Find the database that’s right for you
Oracle offers customers cost-optimized and high performance versions of Oracle Database, the world's leading converged, multimodel database management system, as well as HeatWave MySQL and NoSQL databases. Oracle Autonomous 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.
Announcing Data Deep Dive@AI World 2025
At Data Deep Dive@AI World, October 13 to 16 in Las Vegas, you’ll see how Oracle’s data strategy enables organizations to drive AI innovation, simplify data management, accelerate application development, and leverage data as a competitive advantage.
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66% more efficient DBA teams. 48% more efficient IT infrastructure teams. 436% 3-year ROI.
Read the IDC Business Value report on Oracle Autonomous Database.
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Oracle DatabaseWorld: Multicloud AI Edition
Advance your AI and multicloud strategies with Oracle’s latest innovations in database and cloud technologies. Watch the on-demand sessions to learn more.
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Multicloud solutions
Accelerate innovation and cloud migration with the power and flexibility to deploy OCI Oracle Database services in any cloud. Combine the best of the cloud with your data to quickly build and modernize applications.
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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems
Oracle’s innovative database services, including Oracle Autonomous Database, provide comprehensive cloud-based solutions powered by the latest technology, available wherever you need them. Read the report to see why Oracle is named a Leader.
Why choose Oracle databases 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 five 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 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.
Announcing generative development (GenDev) for enterprise
Watch the replay of EVP Juan Loaiza’s Oracle CloudWorld keynote to learn about this groundbreaking, AI-centric AppDev infrastructure.
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 your selected hyperscaler by using Oracle 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.
Which database is right for you?
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
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 HeatWave MySQL–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 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 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 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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Deploy Oracle Database services in any leading cloud
Accelerate innovation and cloud migration with Oracle 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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Introducing MCP Server for Oracle Database
Jeff Smith, Distinguished Product Manager, OracleKris Rice, SVP, Database Tools, Oracle
Model Context Protocol (MCP) was introduced in November 2024 by Anthropic and was met with viral adoption rates. Oracle evaluated MCP and has integrated it into our core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform supporting MCP. Read on to find out more.
Featured Database blogs
- July 21, 2025 How Can Developers and DBAs Benefit from MCP Server for Oracle Database?
- July 8, 2025 Analysts Praise the General Availability of Oracle Database@AWS
- July 8, 2025 Getting Started with Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure on Oracle Database@AWS
Resources
Access the database documentation library
Access the full suite of documentation for the latest Oracle Database release.
Develop your Database skills
Oracle University provides learning solutions to help build skills and validate expertise. Learn more about training and certification you can rely on to ensure your organization's success.
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Additional information
Learn more about how Oracle Database works and the latest enhancements
Analyst reports
- IDC: Bringing AI to data: Oracle's vision for unified, AI-embedded databases (PDF)
- CIO Magazine: GenAI with vector search: Create new ways to get more value from data (PDF)
- NAND Research: Accelerating enterprise AI with Oracle Database vector search (PDF)
- theCUBE Research: How Oracle accelerates enterprise vector database & vector search adoption (PDF)
- KuppingerCole Analysts: The AI database (PDF)
- dbInsight: Oracle Database 23ai puts AI in the driver’s seat (PDF)
- Constellation Research: Oracle ushers in the AI era with Oracle Database 23ai (PDF)
- WinterCorp: Oracle Database 23ai brings AI to data (PDF)
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