General Availability (GA): Oracle Database 20c is now available for Preview + New Features

General Availability (GA): Oracle Database 20c is now available for Preview + New Features. You can download 20c as a Oracle Cloud (Database Cloud Service Virtual Machine) here.

Here is an excellent blog post by William Hardie VP of Oracle Database Product Management summarizing a Preview of Oracle Database 20c. Here is a quick recap on this topic.

• Oracle Database 20c is the latest upcoming version in the multi-model family of Oracle Databases.
• Oracle Database 20c focus and push is on the Converged/Consolidated Database model. Here is a quick summary about Converged/Consolidated Databases.
• Some of the New Features in Oracle Database 20c
• Blockchain Tables.
• SQL Macros.
• In-Memory Enhancements:
• Self-Managing In-Memory Column Store.
• In-Memory Hybrid Columnar Scans.
• Database In-Memory Vector Joins.
• Native JSON datatype Support.
• Machine Learning for Python and AutoML.
• Optimized Graph Models.
• Sharding Enhancements/Improvements.
• Persistent Memory Support.
• Expression based init.ora parameters.
• Automatic Zone Maps.
• A whole lot more is coming with Oracle 20c: Stay Tuned...

Here is a pretty good video by Andy Mendelsohn providing an overview of some of the new & upcoming features with Oracle Database 20c:

Here is the complete list of New Features in Oracle 20c Documentation.

I hope you got a quick overview of whats coming in Oracle Database 20c which is now available in Preview Release.

Cheers.