Oracle Advanced Analytics and Oracle Spatial and Graph Licensing Change

Effective December 5, 2019, Oracle Advanced Analytics (OAA) and Oracle Spatial and Graph (OSG) options are included with Oracle Database. This affects Enterprise Edition, SE2 and Database Cloud Service (DBCS) Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. The official Oracle Database blog post announcing this licensing change can be found here. This blog post contains links to additional posts for each of these options.

Oracle Database includes industry-leading multi-model and analytic capabilities. As a converged database, Oracle Database supports multiple data types and data models (e.g. spatial, graph, JSON, XML), algorithms (e.g., machine learning, graph and statistical functions) and workload types (e.g. operational and analytical). While many of these capabilities are included in Oracle Database products and cloud services today, Oracle’s goal is to provide these advanced machine learning, spatial and graph development APIs to all developers and applications.

While other providers require the use of separate data management platforms to address each different data type and data model, Oracle Database supports all data types and workloads in a single unified platform. Oracle’s architecture enables developers to build modern applications more rapidly, without incurring the overhead of operational complexity. As compared to the separate single-purpose data services, Oracle provides greater simplicity (one data engine to manage, rather than multiple data engines), tighter data integration across domains, and better security, scalability and availability.

 

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  • Why has Oracle made this change?

    This licensing change encourages and enables more customers and prospects to use the full breadth of Oracle Database. Technologies like machine learning, graph analytics, and spatial intelligence should be part of almost every modern application, and Oracle believes that these technologies should be broadly available to all Oracle customers.

    While these capabilities are widely used today, the added cost of the database options have prohibited adoption for some customers. The removal of cost as a factor, combined with recent additions of developer and data scientist-friendly Oracle Machine Learning Notebooks and selfservice tools like Spatial Studio with Oracle Autonomous Database, offers a more all-inclusive data platform for developer and data scientist communities.

  • How does this change benefit developers and data scientists?
  • Why is a converged database architecture superior to separate databases for different workloads?
  • How does this change affect existing customers?
  • Will customers who have Oracle Database ULAs now have ULAs for Oracle Spatial and Graph and Oracle Advanced Analytics (Machine Learning)?
  • Are all features of OAA and OSG now included in Oracle Database? Are there any changes to packaging?
  • Will there be any increase to license or subscription prices as a result of this change?
  • Will this change affect the investment Oracle is making in these technologies?
  • Does this affect Database Cloud Service (DBCS) offerings?