Oracle CloudWorld 2022 has come to an end and, as usual, there were lots of exciting announcements and presentations throughout the conference. Here are some highlights you want to be aware of.

Keynotes

The four main keynotes at this year’s event focused on Business Results, Solving Complex Problems, Fusion Apps, and Cloud Infrastructure.

In his keynote, Larry Ellison explained how Oracle helps solve the most complex problems across industries. In particular, he focused on the reality of multi-cloud, next-gen healthcare applications, productivity, and the ever-existing data fragmentation problem caused by distributed systems and how technologies like APEX enabled Oracle to build COVID vaccination apps for entire countries in weeks when others couldn’t deliver it in months.

Larry Ellison keynote

Safra Catz sat down with the CEO of NVIDIA, the CTO of Deutsche Bank, the CEO of Red Bull Racing, and other executives to discuss how to drive impactful business results.

While Clay Magouyrk gave insights on what’s next for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, how it is robust, available where you need it, and how it works well with others. Clay also introduced Oracle Alloy a platform that enables other people to become a cloud operator themselves.

All main keynotes are available on demand today. Just head over to oracle.com/cloudworld/on-demand/ and see for yourself!

A new version of Oracle Database

In his solution keynote, Andy Mendelsohn announced that the next Oracle Database version would be 23c, which is also planned to be the next long-term support (LTS) release. There will be over 300 new features in this new version of the Oracle Database, which will innovate all aspects of modern-day data management. There is a particular focus in 23c on App Simple, which will provide functionalities that will assist developers to build next-generation mission-critical, high-performance database applications. And, of course, there are a lot of features that will make the operational aspects of the database easier as well. One highlight from this keynote was Josh Spiegel’s demoing Oracle’s MongoDB-compatible API working against a JSON collection stored in an Oracle Database.

Andy Mendelsohn solution keynote

JSON Relational Duality

Juan Loaiza unveiled a great new feature called JSON Relational Duality coming to Oracle Database that combines the power of JSON documents and the relational model by building the first ever database that can automatically translate JSON to and from relational with full ACID transaction and lock-free concurrency controls built-in. This not only allows developers to keep using JSON documents and data analysts to query data via SQL, something that can already be done with Oracle Database since 12.1.0.2, but it is a game changing approach to how we think about organizing and representing our data.

Juan Loaiza solution keynote

Customers showing what they are doing with Oracle Database

Of course, an Oracle event like CloudWorld wouldn’t be much of an event without having customers presenting on what they are doing with Oracle Database and other Oracle technologies. Here some highlights:

Insightful sessions from Oracle

In addition to the many keynotes, announcements, and customer sessions, there were also plenty of sessions from Oracle employees that gave great insights into how to simplify the day-to-day job and things that can make your life easier:

Key takeaways

  • The next version of Oracle Database will be 23c and it is a long-term support release.
  • Oracle Database 23c beta is beginning now and you can learn more about it and register to participate at blogs.oracle.com/database/post/oracle-database-23c-beta-program.
  • Oracle APEX 22.2 is now in preview and includes enhancements to progressive web apps (PWA) to provide a virtually native mobile user experience.
  • A new version of SQL Developer is coming based off VS Codium
  • We have a new Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service that provides secure backup and fast, predictable recovery for Oracle Database services and Autonomous Database running on OCI.
  • We also introduced Oracle Full Stack Disaster Recovery Service which allows customers to monitor and manage the entire disaster recovery process for applications, middleware, networks, storage, and compute from the OCI console.
  • A new edition of GoldenGate called GoldenGate Free allows prospects, customers, developers, and students to use GoldenGate and its new user experience and entirely automated replication lifecycle for free. Designed for development, devops, test, and production source or target databases of 20GB or less on OCI, on other clouds, or on-premises.