Oracle renames Database 23c to 23ai, makes it generally available

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Oracle is making the latest long-term support release version of its database offering — Database 23c — generally available for enterprises under the name Oracle Database 23ai.

The change in nomenclature can be attributed to the addition of new features to the database that are expected to help with AI-based application development among other tasks, the company said.
 

AI Vector Search in Database 23c that has been passed onto 23ai along with other features, according to the company, also supports retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a generative AI technique, that combines large language models (LLMs) and private business data to deliver responses to natural language questions.

Other notable features of Database 23c that have been passed onto 23ai include JSON Relational Duality, which unifies the relational and document data models, SQL support for Graph queries directly on OLTP data, and stored procedures in JavaScript, allowing developers to build applications in either relational or JSON paradigms.

Database 23ai, according to Oracle, will be available as a cloud service as well as on-premises through a variety of offerings, including Oracle ExadataDatabase Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Base Database Service, as well as on Oracle Database@Azure.