Autonomous Database for Transaction Processing and Mixed Workloads

Autonomous Database for Transaction Processing and Mixed Workloads delivers a self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database service that can instantly scale to meet demands of a variety of applications: mission-critical transaction processing, mixed transactions and analytics, IoT, JSON documents, and so on.

When you create an Autonomous Database, you can deploy it to one of two kinds of Exadata infrastructure:

Shared, a simple and elastic choice. Oracle autonomously operates all aspects of the database life cycle from database placement to backup and updates.
Dedicated on Public Cloud, a private cloud in public cloud choice. A completely dedicated compute, storage, network and database service for only a single tenant, providing for the highest levels of security isolation and governance.
Dedicated on Cloud@Customer, Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure running on on Exadata Database Machine system in your data center, together with the networking configuration that connects it to Oracle Cloud.

Get Started

Use the following resources to get started with Autonomous Database, or jump straight to Using Oracle Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure or dedicated Exadata infrastructure.

Learn about Your Service

What is Autonomous Database for transaction processing and mixed workloads?
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure
Step through a typical workflow
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure

Access Your Database

Monitor database performance
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure
Start and stop your database
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure
Connect to your database
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure

Administer Database Users

Create a user account
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure
Provide connection credentials to users
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure
Manage user privileges
- Shared Infrastructure
- Dedicated Infrastructure

Use Autonomous Database for Free

Autonomous Database provides an Always Free version you can use to learn about service capabilities. It also is useful for development and testing activities. The Always Free version is available at no cost for an unlimited time to Oracle Cloud Free Tier accounts and paying customers. You can have up to two Always Free databases per account. These databases are subject to certain limits on the available CPU, storage, and simultaneous connections. For further information, see Always Free Autonomous Database.