Oracle today announced Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer – a simple and powerful AI database hybrid cloud solution to help customers run mid-sized, high-performance workloads in locations of their choice. This announcement has been positively received by leading industry analysts, as it enables organizations to move key enterprise AI workloads and more into cloud environments by running Oracle AI Database, applications, and AI agents on a simple, unified, and affordable cloud subscription model in customer-selected locations.
“When it comes to an AI database cloud service delivered in a small form factor at an economical price point, Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer is the most differentiated offering available today. Organizations can now have private AI for their data anywhere they like, including Private Agent Factory and Deep Data Security, from satellite offices to regional branches and production facilities. Nobody else is engineering an AI database with cloud infrastructure together for hybrid cloud deployments with the degree of innovation that Oracle is focused on with this new entry-level Cloud@Customer offering.”
Stephen Dickens — CEO, HyperFrame Research
“Viewed together, Exadata Cloud@Customer and Base Database Cloud@Customer represent a powerful one-two punch for enterprise AI. With Exadata, Oracle anchors an organization’s most demanding mission-critical databases. And with Base Database Cloud@Customer, Oracle can more readily push Oracle AI Database, Agentic AI, and cloud automation closer to where business operations and enterprise data reside. Rather than managing separate technology stacks for both use cases, organizations can now operate a unified Oracle AI Database estate spanning headquarters, regional facilities, and remote operations—all under a common cloud control plane. This level of control will appeal to many Oracle shops where private AI for data is fast becoming a significant competitive advantage in the emerging era of distributed enterprise AI.”
Bradley Shimmin — Vice President, Futurum
“Enterprise AI has become a distributed data problem. The information that makes AI useful lives in headquarters, regional offices, manufacturing floors and warehouses, and much of it can’t move due to regulatory, latency or sovereignty constraints. Most AI architectures force enterprises to bring data to the AI. Oracle’s Private AI for Data, Anywhere inverts that model. By deploying AI Vector Search and Private Agent Factory consistently across Exadata Cloud@Customer and Base Database Cloud@Customer, organizations can run AI wherever their trusted data already resides.”
Matt Kimball — Vice President, Moor Insights & Strategy
“Enterprise Acceleration isn’t achieved by deploying AI in one location, it’s achieved by creating a consistent AI operating model across the enterprise. Oracle has been executing that strategy with Exadata Cloud@Customer for organizations running their most demanding mission-critical workloads, and now extends that vision with Base Database Cloud@Customer for departments, regional operations, and distributed business environments. Together, they allow enterprises to deploy the same Oracle AI Database, the same cloud automation, and the same Private AI capabilities wherever business data resides. That’s an important evolution because it enables organizations to accelerate AI adoption without creating another generation of fragmented infrastructure.”
Holger Mueller — Vice President, Constellation Research
“With the success of Exadata Cloud@Customer across leading enterprises worldwide, Oracle is now taking its AI operating system, the Oracle AI Database, and making it available as a lower-cost cloud service optimized for branch offices and distributed locations. With Base Database Cloud@Customer, Oracle is delivering private AI for data anywhere organizations require it, effectively providing an enterprise AI fabric between the mission-critical core with Exadata Cloud@Customer to the distributed regional office with Base Database Cloud@Customer. Whether its agentic AI, vector search or deep data security, organizations can now run AI right next to their data, wherever it resides, without spending time and resources on external AI caches and shuffling data between isolated, single-purpose databases.”
Ron Westfall — Vice President, HyperFrame Research
“Most enterprise AI strategies eventually collide with the realities of distributed data. Branch offices, manufacturing facilities, hospitals, government agencies, and retail locations all generate valuable information that organizations are reluctant, or unable, to centralize. Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer directly addresses that challenge by bringing Private Agent Factory, AI Vector Search and Agentic AI to regional sites while preserving a consistent cloud operating model. That’s what makes “Private AI for Data—Available Anywhere” a highly differentiated architectural strategy rather than simply a deployment option.”
Steve McDowell — Chief Analyst & Founder, NAND Research
“As organizations scale AI across the enterprise, cost efficiency becomes just as important as performance. Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer combines Oracle-managed operations, automated scaling, pay-per-use database licensing, and highly efficient storage technologies into an architecture designed to keep AI infrastructure economically sustainable. That’s particularly important as enterprises seek to expand AI capabilities without allowing operational costs to grow at the same pace. From that vantage point, Base Database Cloud@Customer represents a new entry point for enterprises seeking a solution that enables private AI for data anywhere they choose.”
Stephen Catanzano — Principal Analyst, Omdia
“Oracle is building something larger than a collection of individual infrastructure products; it’s creating integrated foundational technology for an actual enterprise AI fabric, giving customers the ability to connect data with models, agents, workflows, semantic context and governance. “Exadata Cloud@Customer demonstrated enterprise demand for cloud operations over critical data assets. Base Database Cloud@Customer expands Oracle’s hybrid portfolio, offering a lower-cost entry point while maintaining core AI capabilities. By incorporating features like AI Vector Search and Private Agent Factory across both Exadata Cloud@Customer and Base Database Cloud@Customer deployments, organizations can build data-centric AI applications on a unified platform—delivering architectural consistency alongside deployment flexibility.”
Dave Vellante — Chief Analyst, theCUBE Research
“Exadata Cloud@Customer is built to deliver the scale and resilience required for the enterprise core, while Base Database Cloud@Customer extends the same Oracle AI Database, AI Vector Search, and Private Agent Factory into distributed environments where business data is increasingly created and consumed. The result is a unified Cloud@Customer portfolio that gives organizations the ability to deploy AI for data wherever it is needed to create business value without introducing operational complexity.”
Carl Olofson — Principal, DBMSGuru
“Today’s AI induced supply chain disruptions are hitting IT organizations hard. Servers, memory, SSDs, HDDs, and networking have all massively spiked in pricing. Assuming they can even get them in a reasonable timeframe. That problem is exacerbated by the how Agentic AI has broken 20 years of data governance, and a serious shortage of experienced database administrators. Small to medium organizations are the hardest hit. Oracle’s new Base Database Cloud@Customer running Oracle AI Database 26ai is specifically aimed at solving all of those problems. It’s a complete package that matches infrastructure to workload requirements, secures data at its source, and provides the on-premises management and capabilities these organizations require at a cost they can afford.”
Marc Staimer, Senior Analyst, theCUBE Research
“As organizations introduce AI agents into workflows involving sensitive and regulated data, security has to begin at the data layer rather than being added around the application afterwards. Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer brings database services, AI Vector Search, and Private Agent Factory into the customer’s own environment, helping organizations keep data and AI processing within controlled boundaries while supporting data sovereignty and compliance requirements. Automated patching, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery are equally important. Reducing the window of exposure and ensuring that the business can recover quickly are part of the same trust problem. The real value is not just the ability to deploy private AI locally, but having an architecture where security, governance, and continuity are treated as foundational requirements.”
Alexei Balaganski — Lead Analyst and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), KuppingerCole Analysts
“Database architecture matters even more in the AI era than it did in the transaction-processing era. Exadata Cloud@Customer continues to provide an outstanding hybrid cloud platform for the enterprise’s highest-value databases, while Base Database Cloud@Customer extends Oracle AI Database, AI Vector Search, Private Agent Factory and Deep Data Security to regional warehouses and distributed business operations. The result is a unified data architecture that brings AI directly to enterprise data wherever it resides, preserves operational consistency, and allows organizations to benefit from private AI for data without introducing separate AI databases, external AI caches or additional data pipelines. When it comes to data and AI working together, Exadata Cloud@Customer combined with Base Database Cloud@Customer delivers a distinctively simple and consistent architecture for generative AI and data that functions reliably and efficiently across the entire enterprise.”
Richard Winter — CEO, Wintercorp.
“Oracle continues to strengthen its hybrid cloud strategy with Base Database Cloud@Customer, and is making AI-ready hybrid cloud accessible across a broader range of customer environments in the process. Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer extends the same Oracle AI Database capabilities, cloud operations, and subscription model that customers value in a smaller form factor ideal for remote locations, while Exadata Cloud@Customer remains the platform of choice for the highest-performance, mission-critical data center workloads. Together, they provide a consistent foundation for private AI for data, wherever it resides.”
Sanjeev Mohan — Principal, SanjMo
“Oracle Base Database is a timely addition to the Cloud@Customer portfolio. It fills a major gap for midsized enterprises requiring the best of both worlds: the simplicity, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of a cloud database service with the ability to keep it all inside the firewall. AI has raised the stakes for keeping data and operations on-premises, especially for organizations subject to increasingly stringent data residency mandates or with use cases requiring running “hard” real-time models on local data such as IoT. While Oracle already offers Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer for larger enterprises, Base Database Cloud@Customer opens this up to the rest of us.”
Tony Baer — Principal, dbInsight