Cloud Upgrade Advisor

Are you running your Oracle Database in a third-party environment? Bring it to Oracle Multicloud to unlock your data's potential!

Leverage the efficiencies of engineered systems and Oracle Autonomous AI Databases - and the power of Oracle AI Database 26ai - without moving to a different cloud provider.

Current Environment

Edition Type

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Multi-threading in current cloud

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Service Family

Autonomous AI Database BYOL

ExaDB BYOL

BaseDB BYOL

IaaS for DB EE

Authorized Cloud Env. EE

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Supported Cloud Environments	OCI, Cloud@Customer, @Azure, @Google Cloud, @AWS	OCI, Cloud@Customer, @Azure, @Google Cloud, @AWS	OCI, @Azure, @Google Cloud	OCI	Amazon Web Services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Microsoft Azure Platform and Google Cloud Platform
CPUs available with entitlement derived from current environment vCPUs	-- ECPUs. Oracle RAC required for instances larger than 64 ECPUs.	ECPUs	ECPUs	OCPUs	vCPUs
Compute Capacity provided by entitlement	times more than Authorized Cloud Env.	times more than Authorized Cloud Env.	times more than Authorized Cloud Env.	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
Oracle Support Rewards - save $0.25 for every dollar spent on OCI (ULA customers save $0.33)	Available	Available	Available	Available
Usage Entitlement during Migration from Cloud to Cloud	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
Applicable Programs	BYOL to PaaS	BYOL to PaaS	BYOL to PaaS	Move License to Cloud	Move License to Cloud

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Management Model	Fully Managed PaaS	Co-Managed PaaS	Co-Managed PaaS	Customer Managed	Customer or Fully Managed (AWS RDS)
Hardware	Engineered System	Engineered System	General Purpose H/W	General Purpose H/W	General Purpose H/W
Deployment Options	ADB-S \| ADB-D	ExaDB-D \| ExaDB-XS	BaseDB EE	Bare Metal \| VM

Management Model	Fully 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.
IOPs Costs	None	None	None
CPU Scaling	Auto Scaling Available	Online Scaling, Manual and/or Scheduled
Exadata Cell Offload	Included	Included
No Cost for OS CPU Overhead	Included
Mix BYOL and Non-BYOL	Included (ADB-S only)
Database CPU Oversubscription	Elastic Pools - sized to 1/4 peak	Fixed Pools - sized to peak

Licensing	No license required for most Options and Packs, which are included with and managed by the service	License required to use most Options and Packs	License required to use most Options and Packs	License required to use Options and Packs	License required for most Options and Packs
Real Application Clusters (RAC)	Managed (note - BYOL RAC License required when service larger than 64 ECPUs)	Required	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Active Data Guard (ADG)	ADB-S: query access / reporting on standby not available. ADB-D: ADG license required for query access / reporting on standby.	Required	Not Supported	Required	Required
Advanced Compression	Included	Required	Required	Required	Required
Advanced Security	Included	Required	Required	Required	Required
Database In-Memory	Included	Required	Required	Required	Required
Database Vault	Included	Required	Required	Required	Required
Label Security	Included	Required	Required	Required	Required
Multitenant	Does not apply to ADB-S. ADB-D: Included.	Limited	Limited	Limited	Limited
Partitioning	Included	Required	Required	Required	Required
Real Application Testing	Included	Included	Included	Required	Required

Diagnostics	Included	Included	Included	Required	Required
Tuning	Included	Included	Included	Required	Required
Data Masking and Subsetting	Included	Included	Included	Required	Required
DDL Logging functionality of Database Lifecycle Management	Included	Included	Included	Required	Required
Cloud Management	Included	Required	Required	Required	Required

Oracle APEX AI Application Generator	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Oracle Machine Learning	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
ORDS	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
SQL Developer Web	Database Actions	Included	Included	Included	Included
Multitenant Up To 3 PDBs	Does not apply to ADB-S. ADB-D: Included.	Included	Included	Included	Included
RMAN Compression	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
RMAN Encryption	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Spatial and Graph	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Data Guard	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Data Safe	Included	Included	Included
Transparent Data Encryption	Included	Included	Included
Oracle AI Vector Search	Included in Oracle AI Database 26ai	Included in Oracle AI Database 26ai	Included in Oracle AI Database 26ai
Load data with Oracle Data Integrator	Included	Included	Included
Oracle GoldenGate (Limited Use)	Included	Included	Included
Graph Studio	Included

Database Service Level	99.995 SLA (with Autonomous Data Guard) 99.95 SLA (without Autonomous Data Guard)	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	ExaDB-D \| ExaDB-XS	With any required options: BaseDB EE-HP Otherwise BaseDB EE	Bare Metal or Virtual Machine
Maximum service size out-of-the-box	512 ECPUs	1520 ECPUs	256 ECPUs	BM: 192 OCPUs \| VM: 94 OCPUs
Max BYOL and non-BYOL mixed service size out-of-the-box	ADB-S: 512 ECPUs. ADB-D: N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Maximum service size on request	ADB-S: 16128 ECPUs. ADB-D: 21504 ECPUs	24320 ECPUs
Max BYOL and non-BYOL mixed service size on request	ADB-S: 16128 ECPUs. ADB-D: N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Deployment Choices	ADB AI Serverless and ADB AI Dedicated Elastic Pools	Exadata and Exascale infrastructure	N/A	N/A	N/A
Maximum Pool Capacity	16384 ECPUs	24230 ECPUs
Minimum service size	1 ECPU	16 ECPUs
Mix BYOL and non-BYOL services in pool	Included (ADB-S only)	No

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.

Service Family

Autonomous DB

BaseDB

ExaDB

IaaS for DB

Service Type

ECPUs

DB Size (TBs)

Lakehouse Storage (TBs)

Other (Txn, JSON, etc.) Storage (GBs)

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An existing on-premises support contract is required.
See the BYOL FAQ for more information.

Service Family

Autonomous AI Database BYOL

BaseDB BYOL

IaaS for DB SE

Authorized Cloud Env. SE

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Supported Cloud Environments	OCI, Cloud@Customer, @Azure, @Google Cloud, @AWS	OCI, @Azure, @Google Cloud	OCI	Amazon Web Services: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Microsoft Azure Platform and Google Cloud Platform
CPUs available with entitlement derived from current environment vCPUs	ECPUs Each instance limited to 32 ECPUs.	ECPUs Each instance limited to 32 ECPUs.	OCPUs	vCPUs. Up to 16 vCPUs per instance with SE, 8 vCPUS with SE1 or SE2
Compute Capacity provided by entitlement	times more than Authorized Cloud Env.	times more than Auth. Cloud Env.	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
Oracle Support Rewards - save $0.25 for every dollar spent on OCI (ULA customers save $0.33)	Available	Available	Available
Usage Entitlement during Migration from Cloud to Cloud	Not Available	Not Available	Not Available
Applicable Programs	BYOL to PaaS	BYOL to PaaS	Move License to Cloud	Move License to Cloud

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Management Model	Fully Managed PaaS	Co-Managed PaaS	Customer Managed	Customer or Fully Managed (AWS RDS)
Hardware	Engineered System	General Purpose H/W	General Purpose H/W	General Purpose H/W
Deployment Options	ADB-S \| ADB-D	BaseDB SE	Bare Metal \| VM

Management Model	Fully 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.
IOPs Costs	None	None
CPU Scaling	Auto Scaling Available
Exadata Cell Offload	Included
No Cost for OS CPU Overhead	Included
Mix BYOL and Non-BYOL	Included (ADB-S only)
Database CPU Oversubscription

Licensing	No license required for most Options and Packs, which are included with and managed by the service	License required to use most Options and Packs	License required to use most Options and Packs	License required for most Options and Packs
Real Application Clusters (RAC)	Managed	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Active Data Guard (ADG)	ADB-S: query access / reporting on standby not available. ADB-D: ADG license required for query access / reporting on standby.	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Advanced Compression	Included	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Advanced Security	Included	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Database In-Memory	Included	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Database Vault	Included	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
Label Security	Included	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Multitenant	Does not apply to ADB-S. ADB-D: Included.	Limited	Limited	Limited
Partitioning	Included	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Real Application Testing	Included	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported

Diagnostics	Included	Not Supported	Required	Required
Tuning	Included	Not Supported	Required	Required
Data Masking and Subsetting	Included	Not Supported	Required	Required
DDL Logging functionality of Database Lifecycle Management	Included	Not Supported	Required	Required
Cloud Management	Included	Not Supported	Required	Required

Oracle APEX AI Application Generator	Included	Included	Included	Included
Oracle Machine Learning	Included	Included	Included	Included
ORDS	Included	Included	Included	Included
SQL Developer Web	Database Actions	Included	Included	Included
Multitenant Up To 3 PDBs	Does not apply to ADB-S. ADB-D: Included.	Included	Included	Included
RMAN Compression	Included	Included	Included	Included
RMAN Encryption	Included	Included	Included	Included
Spatial and Graph	Included	Included	Included	Included
Data Guard	Included		Included	Included
Data Safe	Included	Included
Transparent Data Encryption	Included	Included
Oracle AI Vector Search	Included in Oracle AI Database 26ai	Included in Oracle AI Database 26ai
Load data with Oracle Data Integrator	Included	Included
Oracle GoldenGate (Limited Use)	Included	Included
Graph Studio	Included

Database Service Level	99.995 SLA (with Autonomous Data Guard) 99.95 SLA (without Autonomous Data Guard)	99.9 SLO	N/A	Iaas N/A, RDS <= 99.95% SLO
Storage Systems Software	Included
Smart Scan	Included
I/O Resource Management	Resource Consumer Groups
Fast encrypted queries	Included

Services in Family	ADB-D \| ADB-S	BaseDB SE	Bare Metal or Virtual Machine
Maximum service size out-of-the-box	32 ECPUs	32 ECPUs	BM: 192 OCPUs \| VM: 94 OCPUs
Max BYOL and non-BYOL mixed service size out-of-the-box	ADB-S: 512 ECPUs. ADB-D: N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Maximum service size on request	ADB-S: 16128 ECPUs. ADB-D: 21504 ECPUs
Max BYOL and non-BYOL mixed service size on request	ADB-S: 16128 ECPUs. ADB-D: N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

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.

Service Family

Autonomous DB

BaseDB

ExaDB

IaaS for DB

Service Type

ECPUs

DB Size (TBs)

Lakehouse Storage (TBs)

Other (Txn, JSON, etc.) Storage (GBs)

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ACE Advisor

Are you running your Oracle Database in a third-party environment? Bring it to Oracle Multicloud to unlock your data's potential!

Leverage the efficiencies of engineered systems and Oracle Autonomous AI Databases - and the power of Oracle AI Database 26ai - without moving to a different cloud provider.

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