Autonomous Database and Database Services

Databases are Oracle's greatest strength, and OCI offers industry-leading managed database services. The flagship is Autonomous Database — the world's first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database.

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Autonomous Database

Autonomous Database is a fully managed Oracle Database that uses machine learning to automate routine tasks:

Self-Driving

• Auto-tuning — automatically optimises queries and indexes
• Auto-scaling — scales compute and storage based on demand
• Auto-patching — applies patches and updates with zero downtime

Self-Securing

• Auto-encryption — data encrypted at rest and in transit (always on, cannot be disabled)
• Auto-security patches — applied automatically without downtime
• Data Safe — built-in data security assessment and masking

Self-Repairing

• Auto-backup — continuous automatic backups
• Auto-failover — automatic failover in case of failure
• 99.995% SLA — with Autonomous Data Guard

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Autonomous Database Workload Types