Oracle Database 23ai, the latest release of Oracle's converged database, is now generally available as a broad range of cloud services. This long-term support release includes Oracle AI Vector Search and more than 300 additional major features focused on simplifying the use of AI with data, accelerating app development, and running mission-critical workloads. The new AI Vector Search capabilities enable customers to securely combine search for documents, images, and other unstructured data with search on private business data, without moving or duplicating it.

Oracle Database 23ai brings AI algorithms to where the data lives, instead of having to move the data to where the AI algorithm lives. This allows AI to run in real-time in Oracle databases, and greatly improves the effectiveness, efficiency, and security of AI. Oracle Database 23ai is available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) on Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Oracle Base Database Service, as well as on Oracle Database@Azure.

New capabilities in Oracle Database 23ai include: Oracle AI Vector Search: Makes it simple for customers to search documents, images, and relational data based on their conceptual content rather than specific words, pixels, or data values. AI Vector Search makes it possible for LLMs to query private business data using a natural language interface and helps LLMs provide more accurate and relevant results. In addition, AI Vector Search allows developers to easily add semantic search capabilities to both new applications and existing applications.

All the mission-critical features of Oracle Database now work transparently with AI vectors, enabling Oracle customers to run AI Vector Search for even their most mission-critical applications. By storing and processing business and vector data in the same high-performance database, customers can seamlessly integrate AI Vector Search into existing business applications to implement new and innovative AI use cases?without compromising data security. Oracle Exadata System Software 24ai: Exadata smart storage accelerates AI Vector Search by up to orders of magnitude.

This enables applications to run AI Vector Search for both large volumes of data and high numbers of users.OCI GoldenGate 23ai: GoldenGate enables heterogeneous data integration and high availability across cloud data stores. GoldenGate 23ai delivers new capabilities that allow vectors to be replicated in real-time across heterogeneous vector stores. It also allows enterprises to quickly bring AI to all their data with minimal risk by replicating data from their existing databases to Oracle Database 23ai where it can be vectorized and indexed for fast AI search.