Oracle says, Autonomous Database is a mission-critical, converged database that runs transactional and analytic workloads. It automatically scales, tunes, patches, and secures all the workloads using machine learning to provide the highest service availability, security, and performance. It is built on Oracle database and Oracle Exadata for easier migration to the cloud at lower cost. Autonomous Database is available on the public cloud with shared and dedicated infrastructure and on-premises with Exadata Cloud@Customer.
- Self-Driving: Provisions workload-optimized, highly available databases. Uses automated configuration settings, minimizes tuning required for specific workloads, and scales compute resources as needed.
- Self-Securing: Protects sensitive and regulated data, automatically patches your database for security vulnerabilities, and prevents unauthorized access.
- Self-Repairing: Detects and protects against system failures and user errors and provides failover to standby databases with zero data loss.
The foundation for Autonomous Database includes Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Exadata Database Machine, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Autonomous Database incorporates and automates many advanced database technologies that are unique to Oracle, including:
- Real Application Clusters for scale-out, failover, and online patching
- Online operations for schema changes
- Active Data Guard for database aware disaster recovery
- Database In-Memory for high performance
- Transparent Database Encryption for data protection
- Database Vault for role separation
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