The Future of App Development Using New AI Innovations in Autonomous Database

September 10, 2024 | 6 minute read
George Lumpkin
Vice President of Product Management
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AI is no longer just a concept from science fiction—it’s a powerful reality that often feels like having magic at your fingertips. Still, it remains challenging for many organizations to leverage AI for sophisticated, enterprise-scale AppDev.

In response to this challenge, Oracle today announced multiple generative AI-based Autonomous Database enhancements designed to make it even easier for organizations to harness AI to build mission-critical applications. This builds on generative development for enterprise (GenDev), Oracle’s groundbreaking AI-centric application development infrastructure, fueled by Oracle Database 23ai technologies that enable you to focus on building creative app functionality instead of worrying about infrastructure needs. 

It’s now easier and faster for your team to build apps that use AI-powered natural language interfaces and human-centric data. Welcome to the future of enterprise application development with GenDev’s AI-centric infrastructure—it’s here today, ready to transform the way you innovate.

 

Revolutionize How You Build AI-Powered Apps

Get ready to unleash the future of app development. Oracle is releasing new Autonomous Database innovations that enhance your ability to harness AI on an enterprise scale to create rich sophisticated applications faster than before and enabling you to achieve what once only experts could:

Bridging the Gap between AI and Your Business Data with Select AI RAG

One of the biggest hurdles in AI development is that Large Language Models (LLMs) are often built on publicly available data, which means they cannot understand your specific, private enterprise data. This is where Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) comes into play, which helps the LLM by providing relevant information from your enterprise Oracle databases to help answer your questions more accurately, with contextually relevant information.

Autonomous Database Select AI makes it easy for developers to use RAG by:

  • Declaratively creating and populating vector stores with your corporate data using built-in AI pipeline capabilities.
  • Expanding SQL to seamlessly integrate vector store content into your natural language queries.

With Select AI, you can enhance your prompts with enterprise data, creating apps that combine the vast knowledge of LLMs with the unique insights from your own data. 

 

 

Graph RAG and Graph Studio: A New Advance in AI

The latest buzz in AI is all about Graph RAG—improving RAG by incorporating graphs that represent complex relationships in your data. Graph RAG enhances your AI-powered apps by combining document and graph embeddings, delivering richer, more nuanced responses.

With Graph Studio, a built-in tool within Autonomous Database, you can now create graph models without writing a single line of code. It’s easy and fast to develop Operational Property Graph models, one of the significant innovations in Oracle Database 23ai.

 

Streamline Your Data Workflow

Accelerate your AI-driven application development projects by transforming the way you handle data. Trusted, high-quality data is the foundation of AI in terms of providing accurate and meaningful outcomes from GenAI. Now, with the power of AI, streamlining the process of loading and transforming data is not only easy it also accelerates every downstream activity.

Smart Data Loading

Data Studio’s intelligent data loading doesn’t just load data; it guides you step-by-step, identifying languages in textual data, extracting and enriching content, performing sentiment analysis, and pinpointing key phrases. Plus, GenAI helps flag any personal identifiable information.

Visually Craft Your GenAI Pipelines

With Data Studio’s Data Transforms you can now design GenAI data pipelines with a simple visual interface.  You can easily create text and image vector embeddings that are stored in a powerful vector store. In addition, Data Studio’s Data Analysis enables you to query and analyze these vectors with intuitive Natural Language questions.

Innovative Synthetic Data Generation for Developers

Why risk using live production data for development when you can generate safe, realistic test data fast? Autonomous Database takes the hassle out of creating meaningful data sets for dev/test environments.  You no longer have to contend with risky production snapshots and tedious random data generation. With the integrated power of LLMs, you can now generate realistic test data tailored to your needs, combined with a metadata-only clone of your schema. In just a few clicks, you can deploy a fully populated test/QA environment that’s secure, efficient, and ready to be used.

 

Elevate Your AI Platform

Mastering the Power of AI: Making the Right Choices

When it comes to Generative AI, having options is crucial. Different LLMs excel in various areas—whether it's performance, capabilities, or language proficiency. That’s why Autonomous Database embraces an open approach, letting you work with your preferred LLM on your chosen cloud platform.

You can choose from a wide array of supported LLMs both on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and on other cloud platforms, including OCI’s Generative AI, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Cohere, and the latest additions—Google’s Gemini, Anthropic Claude, as well as those available through Hugging Face. No matter which LLM you select, you can seamlessly build sophisticated applications using simple APIs with Autonomous Database Select AI.

Efficiently Mastering the Power of AI

Now it’s easy to take advantage of ready-made, pre-trained AI models from Hugging Face, a popular online resource. Moving ONNX formatted models inside the Autonomous Database provides an efficient and seamless way to generate your vector embeddings for AI Vector Search.

Accelerate Python Workloads with GPU Power

With the introduction of Autonomous Database 23ai, we're bringing you the first phase of GPU support by enabling OML Notebooks to offload Python to powerful GPU instances in OCI.

Imagine accelerating your compute-intensive tasks:

  • One-Click GPU Activation: Seamlessly enable GPU resources with a simple click by setting your notebook service level to ‘gpu’. No complex setups, no delays—just instant power.
  • Enhanced Performance and Scalability: Run demanding operations such as AI embedding models, deep learning training, and inferencing with enhanced performance using GPU-optimized Python packages alongside traditional CPU workloads.
  • Integrated Efficiency: Enjoy a smooth, cohesive experience with transparent GPU access built into Autonomous Database, helping you achieve great performance for compute-intensive tasks.

Experience GenDev Anywhere, Anytime

What if you could design, build, and test enterprise applications effortlessly, whether you're connected to the internet or working remotely on your laptop. Now you can with the new Autonomous Database for Developers and Autonomous Database for Developers Container Image—your companions for flexible and powerful development.

What you'll get from these new offerings:

  • Affordable and Predictable Pricing: Access a fixed-shape instance of Autonomous Database Serverless at a low cost, flat hourly rate. It's never been easier or more cost-effective to kick start your development and prototyping projects.
  • All-inclusive GenDev Capabilities: Leverage the full suite of GenDev features for your data experiments and application development, with a straightforward upgrade path to production deployment when you're ready to scale.
  • Enhanced Development Experience: With Autonomous Database for Developers, enjoy a comprehensive, serverless online environment with all the usual built-in tools--now optimized for developers.

 

Master the Future of AI with Autonomous Database and Oracle Database 23ai

You can uplevel your AI capabilities by harnessing the latest advancements in AI in Oracle Database 23ai. Whether you're a developer, data scientist, or business analyst, you can easily integrate AI into your applications and analytics, transforming the way you work and innovate.

Dive into the Exciting New GenDev Features:

Discover how you can accelerate your projects with the powerful new GenDev building blocks. Check out these must-read technical blogs:

Read Oracle's announcement - Oracle Introduces an AI-centric Generative Development Infrastructure for Enterprises

Explore the new innovations with Autonomous Database for free – click here.

 

Future Product Disclaimer

The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, timing, and pricing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products may change and remains at the sole discretion of Oracle Corporation.

George Lumpkin

Vice President of Product Management

George is Vice President of Product Management for Oracle Autonomous Database.


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