Oracle AI Database 26ai - The Next Generation of Intelligent Data Platforms

What is Oracle AI Database 26ai ?

Oracle AI Database 26ai is a long-term support release that replaces Oracle Database 23ai.

You can simply apply the OCT-2025 RU (Starting with Release Update 23.26.0) to transition from Oracle Database 23ai to the currently available features of Oracle AI Database 26ai. No database upgrade or application re-certification is required. You will gain immediate access to the released features and will be automatically ready for additional capabilities as they become available.

Oracle AI Database 26ai integrates AI into the core of data management, reinforcing Oracle's commitment to help customers securely bring AI to all their data, everywhere. This achievement represents a major milestone in Oracle's "AI for Data" vision, unveiling a new AI-native database that integrates intelligence across the entire data and development ecosystem, including AI Vector Search, AI-driven database management, data development, application development, and analytics. By combining AI and data at its core, Oracle AI Database simplifies "AI for Data" making it accessible and user-friendly.

Oracle AI Database's built-in AI capabilities provide customers with extensive flexibility for building and deploying AI applications, supporting technologies such as the Apache Iceberg Open Table Format, MCP (Model Context Protocol), LLMs(Large Language Models), Popular Agentic AI Frameworks, and ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) embedding models.

Oracle AI Database’s mission-critical capabilities deliver secure, efficient, and reliable AI integration across all data environments, whether in OCI, leading hyperscale clouds, private cloud, or on-premises.

Where is Oracle AI Database 26ai available ?

Oracle AI Database 26ai is now available across multiple platforms, including:

Oracle Exadata Cloud
AWS Cloud
Azure Cloud
Google Cloud
OCI Exadata Database Service
OCI Base Database Service
Oracle Exadata (On-Premises Deployments)
Oracle Database Appliance (On-Premises Deployments)
Oracle Database 26ai Free (For Developers)
Always Free Autonomous Database (For Developers)
Autonomous Database 26ai Container Image (For Developers)

How to download Oracle AI Database 26ai setup ?

Oracle Linux 8 (OL8)

Oracle Linux 9 (OL9)

Preinstall RPM for Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 (OEL8)

Oracle Enterprise Linux 8 (OEL8)

Preinstall RPM for Oracle Enterprise Linux 9 (EL9)

Oracle Enterprise Linux 9 (EL9)

Microsoft Windows x64

What are deprecated in Oracle AI Database 26ai ?

RCONFIG utility.
The mkstore wallet management command line tool.
PMEM (Oracle Persistent Memory) Database.
Oracle Memory Speed (OMS) File System.
The WAIT option of the Oracle Data Guard SWITCHOVER command is deprecated.
SQLJ method of embedding SQL statements in Java code.
The Autonomous Health Framework Scope (AHF Scope) feature of Cluster Health Advisor (CHA).
The Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) cross-instance archival feature.
The Zero Downtime Upgrade (ZDU) feature of Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP).
The Highly Available Grid Naming Service feature of Grid Naming Service (GNS) in Oracle Grid Infrastructure.
The use of OPatch and OPatchAuto for out-of-place patching.
Unstructured XML indexes
The Oracle JDBC methods open(), close(), and isClosed() in OracleBlob, OracleClob, and OracleBfile.
The PL/SQL packages DBMS_XMLGEN and DBMS_HANG_MANAGER.
The Oracle XML DB Repository.
Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET), Unmanaged Driver.
The Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) decryption libraries for the GOST and SEED algorithms.
The BIG_IO attribute of the CONTEXT indextype.
The ASYNCHRONOUS_UPDATE setting of the CONTEXT indextype.
The parameter WALLET_LOCATION is deprecated for use with Oracle AI Database 26ai for the Oracle Database server. It is not deprecated for use with the Oracle Database client or listener.
The ability to set a schema to PROXY_ONLY_CONNECT is deprecated in Oracle AI Database 26ai.
The SHA-1 verifier
Enterprise User Security (EUS)
The version 6 of the Oracle local auto-login wallet is deprecated as new auto-login wallet version (7) with Oracle AI Database 26ai has been introduced.
The Network Data Model (NDM) XML API used by the NDM feature of Oracle Spatial.
The Snapshot Remastering feature of Oracle Advanced Cluster File System (ACFS).
The ACFS compression feature of Oracle Advanced Cluster File System (ACFS).
The use of Oracle Virtual Directory with Oracle Real Application Security.