{"id":7786,"date":"2020-11-19T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rax-stg-wp-aws.com\/blogs\/autonomous-database-dedicated-and-exadata-cloud-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T19:29:03","slug":"autonomous-database-dedicated-and-exadata-cloud-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"blogs","link":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/blogs\/autonomous-database-dedicated-and-exadata-cloud-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous Database Dedicated and Exadata cloud infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&nbsp;Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This post presents information from a variety of sources regarding Oracle\u00ae Autonomous&nbsp;Database Dedicated and Exadata\u00ae cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/a\/ocom\/docs\/database\/oracle-autonomous-database-strategy-wp.pdf\">Oracle Autonomous Database Technical Overview<\/a>,&nbsp;&#8220;Oracle Autonomous Database combines the flexibility of cloud with the power of machine&nbsp;learning to deliver data management as a service.&#8221; The document later adds, &#8220;The Oracle&nbsp;Autonomous Database includes the full set of products found in Oracle Exadata, and the&nbsp;Exadata Cloud Service, but all [the] components are operated autonomously.&#8221; To put this&nbsp;into perspective, Oracle Autonomous Database is built on the following components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oracle Cloud Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Exadata Servers &amp; Storage<\/li>\n<li>InfiniBand Networking<\/li>\n<li>Exadata Storage Server Software<\/li>\n<li>Oracle Virtual Machine<\/li>\n<li>Oracle Grid Infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Oracle Real Application Clusters<\/li>\n<li>Oracle Database Enterprise Edition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/a\/ocom\/docs\/database\/oracle-autonomous-database-strategy-wp.pdf\">Source<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/blog_article_images\/26496-body-Picture1_26.png\" alt=\"exadata pic 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/infrastructure\/exadata-powers-the-oracle-autonomous-database\"><em>Image Source<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Oracle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/pl\/a\/ocom\/docs\/database\/oracle-autonomous-database-technical-overview.pdf\">Autonomous Database Technical Overview<\/a>,&nbsp;&#8220;All the above components are managed automatically in the Autonomous Database, including&nbsp;initial configuration, changes in response to scale up\/down demands, and during service<br \/>\ndeletion. This section outlines how customers can view management actions that have been&nbsp;taken by Oracle or are scheduled to be executed. This section also outlines the management&nbsp;control that customers have over the service.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/a\/ocom\/docs\/dc\/em\/oracle-autonomous-database-for-dummies-oracle-2nd-special-edition.pdf?elqTrackId=31040cd684444bb7a701725254b656fa&amp;elqaid=78881&amp;elqat=2\">Oracle Autonomous Database for Dummies<\/a>,&nbsp;&#8220;Oracle Autonomous Database offers two deployment choices-;Serverless or Dedicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/blog_article_images\/26496-body-Picture2_17.png\" alt=\"exadata pic 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/database\/autonomous-database-dedicated-exadata-cloud-infrastructure-v2\"><em>Image Source<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn her <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/database\/autonomous-database-dedicated-exadata-cloud-infrastructure-v2\">blog post<\/a>,&nbsp;Maria Colgan shares the following details:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autonomous Database Serverless<\/strong>: &#8220;Oracle automates all the aspects of the infrastructure and&nbsp;database management for customers including provisioning, configuring, monitoring, backing&nbsp;up and tuning. Users simply select what type of database they want (Data Warehouse or&nbsp;Transaction Processing), which region in the Oracle Cloud they want the database deployed,&nbsp;and the base compute and storage resources. Oracle automatically takes care of everything&nbsp;else for them. Once provisioned, the database can be instantly scaled either through the&nbsp;UI, APIs, or automatically based on the customer workload fully online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Autonomous Database Dedicated<\/strong>: &#8220;Allows customers to implement a Private Database Cloud&nbsp;running on dedicated Exadata Infrastructure within the Oracle Public Cloud. Making it an&nbsp;ideal platform to consolidate multiple databases regardless of their workload type or size&nbsp;or to offer a database as a service within an enterprise. Dedicated infrastructure provides&nbsp;complete isolation from other tenants and provides an opportunity to customize operational&nbsp;policies, such as software update schedules, availability, and density, to match your&nbsp;business requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Autonomous Database Dedicated, customers get their own Exadata infrastructure in the&nbsp;Oracle Cloud. The customer&#8217;s administrator specifies the size, region, and availability domain&nbsp;where they want their dedicated Exadata infrastructure provisioned. They also get to determine&nbsp;the update or patching schedule if they wish. Oracle automatically manages all the patching&nbsp;activity but with Autonomous Database Dedicated service, customers have the option to customize the patching schedule. You can specify which month every quarter you want, which&nbsp;week in that month, which day in that week and which patching window within that day. You&nbsp;can also dynamically change the scheduled patching date and time for a specific database if the originally scheduled time becomes inconvenient.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure is provisioned, the administrator can then&nbsp;partition the system into the desired number of clusters and or Container Databases (CDB).&nbsp;Each CDB can have a different update strategy, backup retention, availability, and density.&nbsp;By default, only one CDB is necessary, and all user created database will be created within that container and inherit its update strategy, backup retention, etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/blog_article_images\/26496-body-Picture3_14.png\" alt=\"exadata pic 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/database\/autonomous-database-dedicated-exadata-cloud-infrastructure-v2\"><em>Image Source<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colgan continues: &#8220;Alternatively, the administrator can create separate CDBs for different&nbsp;lines of business or for different use cases. For example, one Container Database could be&nbsp;created as the TEST system to keep the test workload separate from the production database.&nbsp;The TEST CDB would always be patched to the latest Release Update (RU) and would not have a standby database. While the WEB STORE CDB would contain production databases and would&nbsp;have a remote standby. It would also take a less aggressive patching strategy by using Release&nbsp;Update Revisions (RUR). The MANUFACTURING CDB would also house the production database but since&nbsp;they belong to a different line of business, they will go into separate CDBs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Autonomous Database Dedicated?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/database\/autonomous-database-dedicated-exadata-cloud-infrastructure-v2\">Autonomous Database &#8211; Dedicated Exadata Cloud Infrastructure<\/a>,&nbsp;Colgan offers the following answers to this question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Complete Isolation&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Autonomous Database Dedicated (ADD), the level of security and performance isolated&nbsp;can be easily tailored for each workload.&nbsp;&#8220;You get Exadata Infrastructure fully dedicated for your use. The network path is through&nbsp;a virtual cloud network (VCN) and subnet defined by the Exadata infrastructure hosting the&nbsp;database.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By default, this subnet is defined as private, meaning that there is no public Internet&nbsp;access to the databases. This ensures only your company can access your Exadata Infrastructure&nbsp;and your databases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Customizable Operational Policies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oracle automatically provisions configures, manages, and monitors the Autonomous Database&nbsp;for you. But you have the opportunity with Autonomous Database Dedicated to customize&nbsp;the operational policies to best suit your business needs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can customize the software update \/ patching policy. For example, you can choose to&nbsp;deploy new software versions on your development and test databases first before you deploy&nbsp;it on production.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another possible level of customization is customizing the availability policies for&nbsp;different Container Databases (CDBs). For each CDB you can specify the level of availability&nbsp;and disaster recovery you need. You can also define the backup retention policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/pl\/a\/ocom\/docs\/database\/oracle-autonomous-database-technical-overview.pdf\">Colgan concludes<\/a>: &#8220;Oracle Autonomous Database is built on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which&nbsp;keeps systems constantly updated with the latest fixes and security patches, giving developers&nbsp;immediate access to the latest innovations in the Oracle database. Autonomous Database is&nbsp;built on Oracle&#8217;s Exadata Database Machine which delivers the high performance and cost-effective operation customers required for the most demanding and mission-critical&nbsp;applications.&#8221; And a<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/netsoftmate.com\/blog\/oracle-autonomous-database-cloud\/\">Neosoft blog post, Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud<\/a>&nbsp;adds, &#8220;Users that want to rethink their IT strategy and care about things like patching&nbsp;schedules, software versions, workload isolation, and want to be involved in&#8221; selecting&nbsp;these should opt for the Dedicated option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous Database Dedicated and Exadata cloud infrastructure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7788,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","nid":"26496","content_type":"blog","created_by":"10130","authored_on":"2024-01-14T16:51:12+00:00","field_article_industries":"","tag_category":"Technical","field_blog_author_text":"by Rackspace Technical Staff","seo_description":"Explore Oracle Autonomous Database Dedicated and Exadata cloud infrastructure, leveraging automation and machine learning for advanced data management.\r\n","field_featured_image":"","insights_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/blog_technical_images\/26496-insights_image-oracle-technical-blog-1-insights.jpg","field_partners":"","rxt_platforms":"Oracle","product":"","publisheddate":"2020-11-19T16:51:12","rxt_solutions":"Multicloud, Data","opengraph_tag":"","x_tag":"","teaser_flag":"Technical Blog","seo_titile":"Database Dedicated and Exadata Infrastructure | Rackspace","field_topics":"","field_slug":"autonomous-database-dedicated-and-exadata-cloud-infrastructure","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-7786","blogs","type-blogs","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blogs\/7786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blogs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blogs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blogs\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9673,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blogs\/7786\/revisions\/9673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}