Oracle Database 23ai now generally available

Source: Oracle. Oracle Database 23ai is now generally available.
Source: Oracle. Oracle Database 23ai is now generally available.


Oracle Database 23ai, the latest release of Oracle’s converged database is now generally available as a broad range of cloud services. Originally named Oracle Database 23c, the name was changed given the focus on artificial intelligence (AI) in this release. 

With Oracle Database 23ai, AI runs in real-time, and is more effective, efficient, and secure than ever. The release includes more than 300 additional major features focused on simplifying the use of AI with data, accelerating app development, and running mission-critical workloads. AI has been used to streamline Oracle's data management processes, while AI algorithms uncover new insights from data.

AI is also used to facilitate natural language interactions for database queries, and empower users to store AI-generated 'vectors' for swift and efficient object similarity searches.

The AI Vector Search capabilities in Oracle Database23ai enable customers to securely combine search for documents, images, and other unstructured data with search on private business data, without moving or duplicating it. According to Oracle, vectors are representations of data like documents, images, videos, and sound, encoded in a way that allows similarities to be found between them using mathematical calculations.

In a blog post announcing the new release, Dominic Giles, Distinguished Product Manager, Oracle said: "Anyone with a basic understanding of SQL can create a powerful statement combining similarity and other search criteria. These types of queries provide LLMs with additional context, augmenting their knowledge and making their responses more accurate and relevant to your customers' or organisations' questions."

“We are happy to see AI Vector Search added to Oracle Database. We appreciate that we can run AI Vector Search in the same Oracle Database as our other workloads, which allows us to provide a reliable and secure solution,” said Shinichiro Otsuka, NRI Certified IT Architect, Nomura Research Institute, which participated in the Oracle Database 23ai beta programme.

“With the decreasing domestic workforce in Japan, XCAT's customers want to adopt labour-saving measures. Oracle Database 23ai’s AI Vector Search allows customers to use SQL for vector retrieval, making it an excellent tool for engineers with little or no AI knowledge to handle vector data. In addition, the ability to manage AI data at no additional cost is a major attraction for many Oracle Database customers," added Mitsunori Yamane, President, Cross Cat Company.

“We have been consulting on various business transformation projects using advanced digital technology. Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search is very simple to implement by adding a vector column to the current relational database system. I am thrilled that the vector data is within a single record with existing data so that similarity reordering can be done with a single SQL statement. This makes it easy to combine large language models and company data to create and operate enterprise-level retrieval augmented generation systems,” stated Shigeru Urushibara, Chairman, UL Systems.

AI Vector Search is available at no additional charge in Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition 2, Database Free, and all Oracle Database cloud services.

Oracle 23ai also introduced technologies for developers, such as JSON Relational Duality. This technology combines the power of relational and the simplicity of JSON development approaches. "The beauty of JSON Relational Duality is that you can benefit from both approaches without the need to use complex and unwieldy Object Relational Mapping frameworks (ORMs)," said Giles. 

"By creating simple JSON Duality views on top of relational tables you can build applications that use documents to query and update the underlying data sets. Data duplication, a fundamental issue in document modelling, is avoided, and even the complexities of database-level concurrency control are hidden from you as Oracle Database 23ai manages document-level serialisability on your behalf." 

Simple HTTP PUT, POST, and GET operations or use language-specific APIs can be used, Giles added. 

Details

Oracle Database 23ai is now available on Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, OCI Exadata Database Service and OCI Base Database Service. It is also available in the Azure Oracle Database Service. For developers, Oracle Database 23ai is now available in Always Free Autonomous Database as well for download in the Autonomous Database 23ai Container Image and Oracle Database 23ai Free. 

*LLM stands for large language model.

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