The Dawn of the Autonomous Database

This past year there has been much talk about the autonomous database, especially from Oracle. The question though is it a reality or is it the latest industry fad? It’s my opinion it is reality spawned from emerging technologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Without AI and ML there can be no autonomous database solution. Autonomous database is designed to replace not only mundane and repetitive human interaction but to also manage the maintenance of the database and allocating additional resources as needed. So if you have processes that are heavily used in an unpredictable fashion additional storage can be allocated automatically. What makes the autonomous database work? At the most simplistic level – l First of course you need the database. Second it must be deployed in a Cloud environment. Thirdly it needs to be run as a Platform as a Service with high-end capacity hardware. This is your starting point.