What is Oracle’s Autonomous Database?
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 a lower cost. Autonomous Database is available on the public cloud with shared and dedicated infrastructure and on-premises with Exadata Cloud@Customer.
Key Features of Oracle Autonomous Database
Self-Driving
- Provisions workload-optimized, highly available databases.
- Uses automated configuration settings, and minimizes tuning required for specific workloads.
- Scales compute resources as needed.
Self-Securing
- Protects sensitive and regulated data.
- Automatically patches your database for security vulnerabilities.
- Prevents unauthorized access.
Self-Repairing
- Detects and protects against system failures and user errors.
- Provides failover to standby databases with zero data loss.
Foundation of OAD
The Autonomous Database is built on 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: Enable 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
