Oracle Database 23ai - What is coming and Where to find related Documents?
You might know that last year on 3rd April, 2023, Oracle announced the Oracle Database 23c and FREE version of 23c that was called Developer Release. Oracle has introduce many features, I can say 300+ features for DBAs and Developers that enhance productivity with Oracle Database.
As Oracle mentioned in their documents, the Oracle database has new functionality that allows you to access the power of LLMs in conjunction with your databases without compromising the security of your data. You can now “chat” in natural language with your Oracle Database (or via APIs) to get it to answer complex queries using the context of your data.
Expanding the Oracle Database’s AI capabilities further, Oracle added support for AI vector search within the database. Vectors are used in AI to represent the content of unstructured data such as images, documents, and videos. In Oracle Database 23c a native Vector data type was added along with optimized vector similarity search indexing to greatly enhance query performance. New SQL functions and operators will make it easier to create, manipulate, and query vectors in combination with other data models already supported in Oracle Database, including JSON, Spatial, Graph, etc.
This AI feature is a game changer. I think Oracle has improved a lot in In-Database AI and ML last year. All their innovations are now part of Oracle Database 23 version. Due to this change in database, Oracle renamed the database version from 23c to 23ai. You can say, 23ai = AI + Converged Data
On 2nd May-2024, Oracle announced the Oracle Database 23ai Enterprise Grade Database FREE release. 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.
Where to find Oracle Database 23ai info?
You can find all new features resource link of Oracle Database 23ai under one roof with below link,
https://blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-database-23ai-where-to-find-more-information (Bookmark this link)
Get Oracle Database 23ai FREE
Follow this link - https://www.oracle.com/in/database/free/
Must remember that the 23c is now 23ai. Oracle will update all the links and content from 23c to 23ai.
This will take sometime, meanwhile you will see 23c and 23ai both the keywords everywhere.
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Chandan Tanwani
