Big news today – Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release just released!

Hi everyone! Big news today, just announced at Oracle CloudWorld in Singapore!

The new Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is now available.

Oracle Database 23c Free – Developer Release is the first release of the next-generation Oracle Database, allowing developers a head-start on building applications with innovative 23c features that simplify development of modern data-driven apps. The entire feature set of Oracle Database 23c is planned to be generally available within the next 12 months.

It has heaps of new developer-focused features and its completely free! And easy to download and use!

My two favorite features are:

the new JSON Relational Duality Views which allow you to create a JSON document representation from a number of existing tables, and they are read/write! So you can use JSON in your applications and have the underlying data stored in relational tables. Of course you can store it in JSON too if you want to!
JavaScript Stored Procedures, or as I like to think of them – in-database microservices which can scale to zero, with fast startup and scaling, and resource management to prevent noisy neighbors!

I look forward to writing posts about those, and some other exicting new features really soon.

You can find it here: https://www.oracle.com/database/free/

About Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is a Developer Evangelist at Oracle, focusing on microservices and AI. Mark has served as a Section Leader in Stanford's Code in Place program that has introduced tens of thousands of people to the joy of programming, he is a published author, a reviewer and contributor, a content creator and a lifelong learner. He enjoys traveling, meeting people and learning about foods and cultures of the world. Mark has worked at Oracle since 2006 and before that at IBM since 1994.

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