Oracle Autonomous Database simplifies database management with cloud and AI

That tasks should be as automated as possible is one of the main beliefs of most systems engineers: if a machine can do the job instead of man, then it must do it. The concept of Autonomous Database proposed by Oracle approaches this concept in the world of databases: artificial intelligence, together with the use of the cloud, independently manages the database, freeing people from the most tedious and repetitive tasks.

Oracle Autonomous Database: automate database management to leave people free to work

The objective of Oracle is to ensure that DBAs, or database administrators, have more time available to focus on aspects of innovation and support for other figures that must interact with databases, such as developers or users.

According to Oracle, 72% of DBA time is spent on routine system maintenance. The way to lower this number is by combining the cloud and artificial intelligence to deal with the routine operations of managing a database, letting people have more time to do the other tasks assigned to them.

Among the operations carried out by the Oracle Autonomous Database autonomously we find the management of resources, ie the resizing of resources used in real time and based on the real needs of the system, for example: the system can increase the number of cores in real time used to have sufficient power available for demanding processing, returning to a lower number (and thus counting the costs) when the processing ends.

The installation of patches is also automated, the lack of application of which causes the majority of attacks, as well as database and query optimization and monitoring. Even the backup is managed independently.

Adding all the features of the Oracle Autonomous Database you get a system that, according to Oracle, is safer and more performing than the traditional databases fully managed by the DBAs. Availability is in the order of 99.995%, or just two minutes of downtimeal month including scheduled routine maintenance.

These numbers convinced the Lafert Group to use Oracle’s solution, together with Oracle Analytics Cloud and EPM Cloud, to unify six pre-existing information systems. These systems, coming from the various acquisitions of the group, used heterogeneous and incompatible platforms; the use of Oracle systems has made it possible to have a single point of access to the d

ata of all the systems, so as to be able to have the data in shorter times and combining them more easily than before. All without impacts on work organization, since the Oracle software is added to the existing systems and not to replace them.

More information on Oracle Autonomous Database is available on the Oracle website.