Acknowledgements: Dave Rubin / Michael Brey, NoSQL Database Product Management, Oracle
Great news developers, students, and educators – You can now build and prototype your next exciting Internet of Things(IoT), E-commerce, real-time gaming and, product catalog applications on a fully managed NoSQL Database cloud service that never expires for FREE.
Why build on NoSQL Database?
Modern application architectures, development paradigms and practices prefer flexible data models that can adapt to changing business needs and requirements. NoSQL databases support storing data as JSON documents, Key-Values, Wide columnar and Graphs. They are suitable for applications that need extreme high availability, super-fast, ultra-low read and write latencies.
How a cloud database can enhance productivity?
NoSQL Database cloud service is a global database, designed to provide a highly-available, scalable, performant, flexible, and reliable data management solution. Developers can use Java, Python, Node.js, Go language drivers and REST API for application development. Applications just interact with the NoSQL Database data store over HTTP protocol to perform data operations. In addition, the different data models interoperate with each other through the same programming interface.
What is Oracle Cloud Free Tier and how is this different from other cloud providers?
NoSQL Database Cloud service is now part of the Oracle Cloud Free Tier that includes both free limited time promotional trial that allows you to explore a wide range of cloud services, and also as a set of ‘Always Free‘ services that never expire. Each tenant can get up to 133 million reads/writes per month, 25 GB storage per table and up to 3 tables. This is 3x more than AWS DynamoDB free tier limits* and 15x more storage than Azure Cosmos DB free tier limit*. Note, free version of NoSQL database service is currently available only in US West (Phoenix) cloud region.
Free services greatly enhance developers’ freedom and productivity to innovate and build, as these services run on the next generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure enabling almost any workload to achieve better performance, network, and security.
Free services will remain free for as long as they are used and are available to anyone, including those users with paid accounts using Universal Credit pricing and new Free Tier accounts. Check out FAQs for more details.
Get your free NoSQL database today and start building your next application
You can sign up and get started in less than 5 minutes in three simple steps.
Go to Oracle Cloud Free Tier and click on ‘Start for free’ button. Note, while you are signing up, you will be asked to select a “Home Region”. This is important because ‘Always Free’ services run only in your home region, and you cannot change it after the account is created. Additionally, free version of NoSQL database service is currently available only in US West (Phoenix) cloud region, follow along and finish the sign up process and login to cloud console.
Click on the ‘NoSQL Database’ on left navigation in the database category of cloud services and create your NoSQL table.In the ‘Create table’ screen, just toggle the ‘Always Free Configuration’ switch to ‘On’. This will automatically default the read/write units to 50 per second each and storage to 25 GB, the maximum allowed per table. Next, provide details such as table name, primary key and non-primary key column(s) data type, values and click ‘Create table’. That’s it!
Access your newly created table from your favorite programs. Check out detailed documentation on developing with popular language drivers, IDE plugins and about ‘Always Free’ service
Global database for your global ambitions
Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service is built on the latest server, storage, and networking technologies ensuring fast and scalable performance. Even as your workloads increases, it is designed to maintain single digit millisecond, response times ensuring a great user experience.
When you are ready to upgrade to a paid service, it is a simple table migration. Oh, even when you upgrade to paid service, you save up to 72% compared to AWS DynamoDB for similar provisioned configuration. With flexible data models, zero administration, and automatic scaling, your imagination is your limit.
Kiran Makarla is a dynamic business development and go-to-market leader, serving as the outbound product manager for both Oracle Blockchain Platform and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Services. With over 20 years of experience spanning roles from lead engineer and architect to product and marketing management, Kiran brings a wealth of insight to the business technology landscape.
Driven by a passion for building and marketing innovative solutions, Kiran excels at addressing customers’ unique challenges. He collaborates closely with senior technology executives to analyze industry trends, evaluate new product categories, and uncover market opportunities—all with a sharp focus on empowering developers, practitioners, and business users alike.
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