Oracle Database Free

Oracle Database 23ai Free offers the ability to experience Oracle Database, which businesses throughout the world rely on for their mission-critical workloads. The resource limits for Oracle Database Free are up to 2 CPUs for foreground processes, 2 GB of RAM and 12 GB of user data on disk. It is packaged for ease of use and simple download.

Oracle Database 23ai: AI for Data, AI for Devs, AI Where you Need it (2:33)
Announcing Oracle Database 23ai: Bring AI to your data

Larry Ellison and Juan Loaiza discuss the GenAI strategy behind Oracle Database 23ai.

Whether you are a developer, a data scientist, a DBA, an educator, or just interested in databases, Oracle Database 23ai Free is the ideal way to get started. It provides native support for all modern data types, AI Vector Search, broad LLM support, analytics, and the latest development paradigms—all built into one product offered as a free trial. See Oracle free use terms and conditions.

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  • Oracle Database 23ai

    Begin your journey with Oracle Database 23ai, whether you are a developer, a data scientist, a DBA, an educator, or just interested in databases. Experience native support for all modern data types, AI Vector Search, analytics, and the latest development paradigms—all built into one product.

  • Oracle Autonomous Database

    Experience the latest features of Oracle Database 23ai with Always Free Autonomous Database and Autonomous Database Free container image. Test drive new features and develop new applications while taking advantage of additional Always Free OCI services such as OCI Object Storage, OCI Block Volume, and more.

  • Other Oracle Database Software Downloads

    Dive into the comprehensive suite of Oracle Database features at no cost. Develop, test and prototype with ease. Gain access to a wide array of Oracle Database downloads, including previous versions, to support your exploration and experimentation.

“Developers are the most important constituency in tech decision-making today. Therefore, getting tools into their hands with a minimum of friction is more important than ever. Oracle Database 23ai Free is designed to remove obstacles to developer access, allowing devs to define the ecosystem without requiring permission. This is a radical departure for Oracle."

James Governor Co-founder, RedMonk

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“Oracle Database 23ai Free gives developers an opportunity to try out a feature that unifies and synchronizes the documents and relational worlds. It enables developers and data engineers to access formats for each use case without worrying about data structure, data mapping, data consistency or performance tuning. They can now also run graph analytics on top of both relational and JSON data. Oracle’s JSON Relational Duality, a truly revolutionary solution, is perhaps one of the most important innovations in information science in 20 years.”

Carl Olofson

Research Vice President-Data Management Software, IDC
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“Oracle Database 23ai Free as an image on MacBooks can serve as a development or test environment—essentially a sandbox with which developers can experiment to try out all the latest AI-centric capabilities in AI Vector Search or use JSON Relational Duality Views to unite document and SQL data. It basically transforms MacBooks into enterprise AI development platforms.”

Holger Mueller

Vice President & Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
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“Everyone should know about the Oracle Database 23ai Free containerized options. Oracle has provided developers with the latest AI-infused Oracle Database that they can use to develop and test applications on their Mac OS, Windows, and Linux desktops locally…it’s like having your own personalized, portable AI workstation.”

Bradley Shimmin

Chief Analyst, AI & Data Analytics, Omdia
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“I fully get the appeal of ‘free’ to developers....Certainly being able to try the new features in Oracle Database 23ai is very persuasive. Simplifying the development process with the ability to unify relational data and JSON documents, to run Kafka applications directly against Oracle Database, or to build both transactional and analytical property graph applications with Oracle Database are all positive for developers. And that’s what Oracle Database 23ai is all about.”

Ron Westfall

Senior Analyst and Research Director, FUTURUM

What’s included in Oracle Database 23ai Free?

The complete developer functionality of Oracle’s converged database, plus the following:

AI Vector Search

Develop apps with AI Vector Search, leverage vector data types, indexes, and SQL operators in Oracle Database to store and query semantic content from diverse unstructured data, while supporting Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for generating responses to natural language queries.

JSON Relational Duality

Build apps in either relational or JSON paradigms with a single source of truth and benefit from the strengths of both—relational and document models. Data is stored once but can be accessed, written, and modified with either approach.

JavaScript stored procedures

Create high performance, data-driven apps by writing JavaScript stored procedures (powered by GraalVM) and importing existing JavaScript libraries into the database. Minimize round trips to the database by executing business logic directly in the data tier.

JSON Schemas

Use industry-standard JSON Schemas to ensure only valid data is inserted into a JSON column.

Property Graphs

Find and analyze relationships, predict trends, and discover lightning-fast insights using database-native property graphs views. Use new SQL-standard property graph queries to run graph analytics on top of relational and JSON data.

Data use case domains

Bring domain knowledge closer to the data by describing the intended use of data centrally and ensuring data is handled consistently across applications.

Schema annotations

Annotate common data model attributes for tables, columns, views, indexes, and more, providing a central, lightweight, declarative facility to register and exchange usage properties across apps.

Resources

  • Up to 12 GB of user data
  • Up to 2 GB of database RAM
  • Up to 2 CPU threads

Why use Oracle Database Free?

Looking for the right database for your next development project? Learn more about Oracle Database using Oracle Database Free.

May 2, 2024

Try Oracle Database 23ai for Free

George Lumpkin, Vice President of Product Management, Oracle

With the new 23ai release of Autonomous Database Free Container Image and Autonomous Database Free Tier, developers can choose the free development approach best suited for their needs. Develop locally using the container image or develop in the cloud on OCI. Discover how you can access the free development options and start innovating with Oracle Database 23ai features such as AI Vector Search and JSON Relational Duality in combination with Autonomous Database’s rich set of tools and features including Data Studio and Select AI.

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