2.1.1 AI Smart Scan

Oracle Database 23ai includes artificial intelligence (AI) vector search capabilities designed to efficiently query data based on semantic similarities. AI vector search enables applications like voice assistants, chatbots, language translators, recommendation systems, and anomaly detection systems. AI vector search also facilitates sophisticated search and recognition capabilities on images and videos.

In conjunction with Oracle Database 23ai, Oracle Exadata System Software release 24.1.0 introduces AI Smart Scan, a collection of Exadata-specific optimizations capable of improving the performance of various AI vector query operations by orders of magnitude.

AI Smart Scan automatically accelerates Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search with optimizations that deliver low-latency parallelized scans across massive volumes of vector data. AI Smart Scan processes vector data at memory speed, leveraging ultra-fast Exadata RDMA Memory (XRMEM) and Exadata Smart Flash Cache in the Exadata storage servers, and performs vector distance computations and top-K filtering at the data source, avoiding unnecessary network data transfer and database server processing.