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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Choose the deployment option that works best for you

  • 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.

    Oracle Exadata

  • Oracle Cloud technology at your location

    The best hybrid cloud platform for Oracle AI Database, delivered securely behind your firewall and managed by Oracle.

    Cloud@Customer

  • 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.

    Database Cloud Services

  • 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.

    Oracle Multicloud solutions


October 14, 2025

Introducing Oracle AI Database 26ai: Next-Gen AI-Native Database for All Your Data

Jenny Tsai-Smith, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Oracle
Dom 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.

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