Oracle AI Database delivers Platinum-tier availability for mission-critical workloads, introduces Diamond-tier availability for ultra-critical workloads, and helps address new security issues posed by AI and quantum computing NEW YORK, April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle AI World Tour -- Oracle today announced a comprehensive series of enhancements to Oracle AI Database. These enhancements help customers achieve extreme availability and security for all database applications, and always-on, stock-exchange level availability for their most critical workloads without requiring application changes or extensive in-house expertise. "Oracle Database today powers over 90 percent of the world's largest enterprises, and tens of thousands of smaller enterprises, all of which require ultra-high availability and throughput for their mission-critical workloads," said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Oracle AI Database Technologies, Oracle. "Oracle AI Database 26ai on Exadata now delivers Platinum-tier availability with disaster failover times typically under 30 seconds, including for high-throughput multi-node clusters. This is up to 4X faster than Oracle Database 19c without requiring application changes or performance tradeoffs. For the most demanding applications, Oracle Distributed AI Database and Oracle GoldenGate can deliver Diamond-tier availability with disaster failover typically under three seconds. We have also introduced new security capabilities to help address emerging risks from quantum computing and AI-driven data breaches." Oracle Database's Gold-tier availability is widely deployed today by the majority of the largest enterprises and governments around the world. It uses Oracle's Real Application Clusters to transparently scale applications across multiple computers, and to protect from failures of individual computers. It also uses Oracle Active Data Guard to protect against disasters, site failures, and data failures. This Gold-tier availability achieves disaster failover times in seconds for single-computer applications and in low single-digit minutes for high-throughput multi-node clusters. Customers with Gold-tier availability are upgraded to Platinum-tier availability with disaster failover times typically under 30