Oracle AI Database Free Installation and Runtime Restrictions

Oracle AI Database Free restricts itself to only one installation per logical environment. The logical environment can either be a virtual host such as a VM or container, or a physical host. If you attempt to start more than one Oracle AI Database Free installation in such a logical environment, then an ORA-00442: Oracle Database Free single instance violation error is displayed and your database will not start.

This does not affect any existing installation or new installation of Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition. To run more than one Oracle AI Database instance or install more than one copy of the database software, upgrade to Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition.