Big news for our on‑premises community: Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x86‑64 will be released in January 2026 as part of the quarterly Release Update (version 23.26.1). Oracle Engineering has been hard at work building a new generation of database that architects AI and Data together, and delivers AI-native data management on all the leading cloud platforms. Oracle AI Database is already available as an Oracle‑managed service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, as well as on Oracle engineered systems. Now that we have delivered Oracle AI Database on all leading clouds, we are making it available for on‑premises Linux platforms, giving you even more choice to simplify architectures, accelerate AI‑driven development, and meet your security and performance needs no matter where your data lives.
This much‑anticipated milestone brings to your data centers the full power of 26ai, which includes AI Vector Search, globally distributed database with RAFT‑based replication, in‑database SQL firewall, quantum-resistant encryption, True Cache, JSON Relational Duality, Apache Iceberg Lakehouse support, and hundreds of additional new features.
For highlights about key capabilities in Oracle AI Database 26ai, see this blog post or watch this video.
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