“Autonomous essentially brings the world’s prevalent enterprise database to the fore for kids in Pakistan or Kenya or California or wherever,” he says. Tariq Farooq, who runs a technology incubator, sees the Always Free autonomous database as a way to rapidly spin out enterprise-ready applications. “If I want to use machine learning on data in our on-premises database, I first have to buy the machine learning option, and of course I don’t buy it because it’s expensive,” she says. Heli Helskyaho is a database and data modeling expert in Finland who wants to use the free Oracle Database and cloud infrastructure as a way to sell new ideas into her company-without having to shell out cash up front. “You can just start using it for what you want to use it for.” Once a user sets up a login and requests a cloud database, the autonomous database can deploy, tune, patch, back up, and secure itself with no human intervention, so a developer can tinker with these resources without calling in an IT support team. The kicker for developers, says Tierney, is that the database “is autonomous, so you don't need to worry about administration,” he says. The Always Free program works alongside a program of free credits that developers can spend on an extended list of cloud services.
FREE ORACLE DB DRIVERS
Users also get access to a host of free tools for building applications, such as Oracle Application Express, as well as drivers for popular programming languages, REST services for publishing data, and even a popular notebook for doing data science. Added services such as load balancer, monitoring, notifications, and outbound data transfer.
FREE ORACLE DB ARCHIVE
Developers who sign up for a cloud account under the new Always Free program receive access to: