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Service Family	Adb	Basedb Se	Exadb	Basedb Ee	Iaas	Ace
Service Family	Autonomous DB	BaseDB SE	ExaDB	BaseDB EE	IaaS for DB	Authorized Cloud Env.

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Entitlement	ECPUs	4 OCPUs	ECPUs	2 OCPUs	OCPUs
Compute Power	2 to 4 times more than Authorized Cloud Env.	2 times more than Auth. Cloud Env.	2 to 4 times more than Authorized Cloud Env.	2 to 4 times more than Authorized Cloud Env.	2 times more than Authorized Cloud Env.
Support Entitlement	License support via existing on-premises support contract	License support via existing on-premises support contract	License support via existing on-premises support contract	License support via existing on-premises support contract	License support via existing on-premises support contract	License support via existing on-premises support contract
Oracle Support Rewards	Available	Available	Available	Available	Available
Usage Entitlement	100 Days Overlap	100 Days Overlap	100 Days Overlap	100 Days Overlap
Applicable Programs	BYOL to PaaS	BYOL to PaaS	BYOL to PaaS	BYOL to PaaS	Move License to Cloud	Move License to Cloud

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Supported Cloud Environments	OCI, C@C, @Azure, @Google Cloud	OCI	OCI, C@C, @Azure, @Google Cloud, @AWS	OCI	OCI	Amazon Web Services – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Microsoft Azure Platform and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Management Model	Fully Managed PaaS	Co-managed PaaS	Co-managed PaaS	Co-managed PaaS	Customer managed	Customer or Fully Managed (AWS RDS)
Hardware	Engineered System	Generic H/W	Engineered System	Generic H/W	Generic H/W	Generic H/W
Deployment Options	ADB-S \| ADB-D	BaseDB SE	ExaDB-D \| ExaDB-XS	BaseDB EE	Bare Metal \| VM
CPUs per Processor License	8 ECPUs	4 OCPUs	8 ECPUs	2 OCPUs	2 OCPUs	1 vCPU if MT disabled

Management Model	Fully Managed PaaS	Co-managed PaaS	Co-managed PaaS	Co-managed PaaS	Customer managed	Customer or Fully Managed (AWS RDS)
Data Movement Costs	Lower than Authorized Cloud Env.	Lower than Authorized Cloud Env.	Lower than Authorized Cloud Env.	Lower than Authorized Cloud Env.	Lower than Authorized Cloud Env.
IOPs Costs	None	None	None	None
CPU Scaling	Online Auto Scaling Available		Online Scaling, Manual and/or Scheduled	Online Manual Scaling (EE-EP only)
Exadata Cell Offload	Included		Included
No Cost for OS CPU Overhead	Included
Mix BYOL and Non-BYOL	Included

Real Application Clusters (RAC)	Managed (note - BYOL RAC License required when service larger than 64 ECPUs)		Required	Required	Not Supported	Not Supported
Active Data Guard	ADB-S: license required to enable Autonomous Data Guard. ADB-D: Required to use associated functionality.		Required	Required	Required	Required
Advanced Compression	Managed		Required	Required	Required	Required
Advanced Security	Managed		Required	Required	Required	Required
Database In-Memory	Managed		Required	Required	Required	Required
Database Vault	Managed		Required	Required	Required	Required
Label Security	Managed		Required	Required	Required	Required
Multitenant	Does not apply to ADB-S. ADB-D: Managed.	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Partitioning	Managed		Required	Required	Required	Required
Real Application Testing	Managed		Included	Included	Required	Required

Diagnostics	Managed	Included	Included	Required	Required
Tuning	Managed	Included	Included	Required	Required
Data Masking and Subsetting	Managed	Included	Included	Required	Required
Database Lifecycle Management	Managed	Required	Required	Required	Required
Cloud Management	Managed	Required	Required	Required	Required

Oracle APEX	Managed	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Oracle Machine Learning	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
ORDS	Managed	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
SQL Developer Web	Database Actions (Managed)	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Multitenant Up To 3 PDBs	Does not apply to ADB-S. ADB-D: Managed.	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
RMAN Compression	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
RMAN Encryption	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Spatial and Graph	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Data Guard	Managed		Included	Included	Included with EE	Included with EE
Data Safe	Included	Included	Included	Included
Transparent Data Encryption	Included	Included	Included	Included
Oracle AI Vector Search	Included in Database 23ai	Included in Database 23ai	Included in Database 23ai	Included in Database 23ai
Load data with Oracle Data Integrator	Managed	Included	Included	Included
Oracle GoldenGate (Limited Use)	Included	Included	Included	Included
Graph Studio	Managed

Database Service Level	99.995 SLA (with Autonomous Data Guard)	99.9 SLO	99.95 SLO	99.9 SLO	N/A	Iaas N/A, RDS <= 99.95% SLO
Storage Systems Software	Included		Included
Smart Scan	Included		Included
I/O Resource Management	Resource Consumer Groups		Included
Fast encrypted queries	Included		Included

Services in Family	ADB-D \| ADB-S	BaseDB SE	ExaDB-D \| ExaDB-XS	With RAC or ADG options BYOL: BaseDB EP With any other options: BaseDB HP Otherwise BaseDB EE	no match
BYOL Max size	With BYOL RAC: ECPUs and w/o BYOL RAC:	OCPUs	ECPUs	OCPUs	no match	Lesser of entitlement or max service size
Maximum service size out-of-the-box	512 ECPUs	8 OCPUs	1520 ECPUs	64 OCPUs	no match
Max BYOL and non-BYOL mixed service size out-of-the-box	512 ECPUs	N/A	N/A	N/A	no match	N/A
Maximum service size on request	ADB-S: 16128 ECPUs. ADB-D: 21504 ECPUs		24320 ECPUs		no match
Max BYOL and non-BYOL mixed service size on request	ADB-S: 16128 ECPUs. ADB-D: 21504 ECPUs	N/A	N/A	N/A	no match	N/A

Deployment Choices	ADB Serverless and Dedicated Elastic Pool	N/A	Exadata and Exascale infrastructure	N/A	N/A	N/A
CPUs in Pool Available with Your Entitlement	ECPUs. Minimum pool size is 128 ECPUs.		ECPUs
Maximum Pool Capacity	16384 ECPUs		24230 ECPUs
Minimum service size	1 ECPU		16 ECPUs
Maximum service size	16384 ECPUs		24230 ECPUs

At a very high level, you will pay less, and get more value with services that let you modernize your deployment. Here are a few key reasons:

Fastest performance
Highest Availability
Greater Business Agility

Unique capabilities not otherwise available
Loads of free upgrades
All the benefits of Autonomous and Engineered Systems

If you want to find out which service is best for you and compare pricing and TCO options across services, please proceed to the TCO Advisor.

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