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AI Database
Data is the fuel AI needs. Oracle AI Database 26ai brings AI to your data, making it simple to power app development, and mission critical workloads with AI.
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.
- The "AI for Data" revolution is here
AI is fundamentally reshaping how we think about data and apps. In this Oracle AI World main stage keynote, you'll hear from Juan Loaiza, Oracle’s EVP of database technologies, and T.K. Anand, Oracle’s EVP of healthcare and analytics, as they explore what the AI-driven future looks like.
- Announcing Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse
It combines Oracle Autonomous AI Database with vendor-independent Apache Iceberg, enabling customers to run AI and analytics securely on all their data—available on OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Exadata Cloud@Customer.
- Oracle is redefining the analytical database market
The latest IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Analytical Databases 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment highlights the strengths of Oracle Autonomous AI Database in autonomous operations, scale and performance with Exadata, and broad in-database analytics capabilities.
- Multicloud solutions
Accelerate innovation and cloud migration with the power and flexibility to deploy OCI Oracle AI Database services in any cloud. Combine the best of the cloud with your data to quickly build and modernize applications.
Why Oracle AI Database?
AI for data
- Bring AI to your data with built-in AI Vector Search and in-database machine learning; eliminate the complexity and cost of integrating and managing multiple databases—and trying to maintain data consistency.
- Benefit from AI at-scale without sacrificing security, availability, and performance.
- Use the latest technologies such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and enterprise-class LLMs with your own business data for more contextual and relevant results.
Learn more about foundational AI technologies in Oracle AI Database
Dev for data
- Don't let limited data types or programming languages hold you back from innovation; simplify AppDev with support for all modern data types, workloads, and development styles—all within one converged database.
- Get the scalability of relational frameworks with the simplicity of document models using JSON relational duality.
- Use the built-in APEX platform for faster GenAI-powered, low-code development. Simplify the development and deployment of microservices with containerized, pluggable databases.
Mission critical for data
- Improve application response times while reducing the load on database servers with True Cache; no need to rewrite your apps.
- Protect databases against SQL injection attacks — including zero-day attacks —with SQL Firewall. Manage data across multiple regions while meeting data residency regulations using Globally Distributed Database with RAFT replication.
- Use the same technology whether your data lives on-premises or in Oracle Cloud.
Oracle AI Database customer successes
Choose the deployment option that works best for you
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Oracle AI Database services at your location
Run Oracle AI Database at your own location on your own hardware. Or, use Oracle Exadata in your data center for extreme performance, flexibility, and robustness.
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Oracle Cloud technology at your location
The best hybrid cloud platform for Oracle AI Database, delivered securely behind your firewall and managed by Oracle.
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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. Autonomous AI Database provides a fully automated experience for organizations and with auto-scaling capabilities offers the lowest TCO of any database on OCI.
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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.
Introducing Oracle AI Database 26ai: Next-Gen AI-Native Database for All Your Data
Jenny Tsai-Smith, Senior Vice President, Product Management, OracleDom 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.
Featured Database blogs
- October 14, 2025 Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse Embraces Apache Iceberg to Deliver Open, Multicloud Data Access
- October 14, 2025 What are industry analysts saying about Oracle AI Database?
- July 21, 2025 How Can Developers and DBAs Benefit from MCP Server for Oracle AI Database?
- July 16, 2025 Introducing MCP Server for Oracle AI Database
Resources
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Additional information
Learn more about how Oracle AI 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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