Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.

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Why choose Autonomous Data Warehouse?

Get more value from data and analytics

Do more using a data platform designed for speed, agility, and simplicity

Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store, analyze, and understand all your data. The data lakehouse combines the power and richness of data warehouses with the breadth, flexibility, and low cost of popular open source data lake technologies. Access your data lakehouse through Autonomous Database using the world's most powerful and open SQL processing engine.


Data lakehouse foundation diagramOracle’s data lakehouse platform is built from a combination of a data lake and data warehouse to form a data lakehouse. It merges data warehouse and data lake capabilities to enable easier data movement with a more unified architecture. Integrating data lake and data warehouse provides many benefits, including data management, AI and machine learning, and integration options.

Analyze any data, anywhere

Autonomous Database's advanced data processing engine lets you gain insights across multicloud data sources. It doesn't matter if your data is in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure object stores and databases. Or, if your data is in big data file formats such as Apache Parquet, JSON, Apache ORC, Apache Avro, CSV, or XML, Autonomous Database delivers a simple, consistent view of your data estate using your preferred SQL-based tools and applications.


Manage all data services diagramAll the data ingestion, transformation and integration flows into the data stores, warehouses, and data lakes. At the very core, Oracle offers a unified, efficient, low cost and scalable place to unify all this enterprise data even though the data may sit unstructured all the way to structured and curated data. Here you can store, manage, analyze and understand all your data.

Empower innovators with integrated, self-service analytics

Increase the productivity of business users by reducing their dependency on IT, using self-service data tools, and creating low-code analytic applications. Enhance collaboration across teams with Autonomous Database’s analytic views that provide common business definitions and metrics integrated with Oracle Analytics Cloud, Tableau, and other business intelligence applications. Enhance business storytelling based on all data, using the power of built-in machine learning, spatial and graph analytics, and data visualization.


Self-service analytics diagramWith Oracle Autonomous Database, data scientists, business analysts, and non-experts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type.

Prevent risks with security assessments, auditing, and active protection

Autonomous Database provides the most advanced data security that helps reduce the risk of a data breach and simplifies regulatory compliance. Its automated self-patching, automatic, always-on encryption and key management, granular access controls, and flexible data masking provide comprehensive user behavior monitoring with sophisticated auditing capabilities.


Advanced data security diagramEvaluate the security posture of your database and receive recommendations on how to migrate potential risks.

Autonomous Data Warehouse features

A modern data platform for business insights

Oracle Autonomous Database plays a central role in the data lakehouse as both an analytic engine and optimized data store. Users can access the lakehouse through Autonomous Database’s powerful and open SQL processing engine. Analyze Autonomous Database data from big data frameworks using highly efficient Apache Spark and Python connectivity.


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IDC finds Autonomous Database customers obtain a 417% ROI in five years.

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Wikibon finds Oracle Autonomous Database is 50% lower cost than AWS.

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Omdia Universe ranks Oracle as a "Leader" as a “uniquely self-governed data and analytics platform capable of consistently handling a wide array of workloads across hybrid cloud/on-premises deployments.”

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September 10, 2024

Announcing Select AI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on Autonomous Database

Mark Hornick, Senior Director, Data Science and Machine Learning, Oracle
Russ Lowenthal, Vice President, Database Security, Oracle

Select AI’s new support for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) makes it easy to use large language models (LLMs) to gain insight or generate innovative content based on your private data using natural language prompts. Use Select AI with RAG to get more relevant responses to your natural language questions while helping reduce the risk of hallucination.

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