Free Oracle technologies for Developers

Oracle offers many free technologies to developers as part of its comprehensive product portfolio which are not always easy to find. This page provides you with a one-stop-shop list of all of them. And the best part, you can help as well! If you find a technology that is missing in this list or spot a mistake, please read the Contributing Guide and submit a Pull Request.

Also, if you are looking for a list of all the open source projects that Oracle contributes to, check out opensource.oracle.com.

And make sure you also head over to developer.oracle.com/free for additional great free developer resources from Oracle.

Table of Contents

• Cloud
• Container Platform
• Databases
• Database Tools
• Graph
• In-Memory
• Java
• JavaScript
• Linux
• Machine Learning
• Python
• Ruby
• Serverless
• Source Code Management
• Virtualization

Cloud

• Oracle Cloud Always Free Tier

  • Compute

    • Compute - 2 AMD based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each
    • Compute - 4 Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 24 GB of memory usable as one VM or up to 4 VMs

  • Content Management

    • Content Management Starter Edition - 5000 assets per month

  • Databases

    • Autonomous Database - 2 DBs, 20 GB each
    • NoSQL Database with 133 million reads per month, 133 million writes per month, 25 GB storage per table, up to 3 tables

  • Network

    • Flexible Load Balancer - 1 instance, 10 Mbps
    • Flexible Network Load Balancer
    • Outbound Data Transfer - 10 TB per month
    • Bastion service - 5 Bastions
    • Site-to-Site VPN - 50 IPSec connections
    • VCN Flow Logs - 10 GB per month (shared with Logging)
    • Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN) - maximum of 2 VCNs, includes IPv4 and IPv6 support

  • Management

    • Monitoring - 500 million ingestion datapoints, 1 billion retrieval datapoints
    • Notifications - 1 million sent through https per month, 1000 sent through email per month
    • Observability - Application Performance Monitoring, 1000 tracing events per hour and 10 Synthetic runs per hour
    • Resource Manager - managed Terraform
    • Logging - 10 GB per month (shared with VCN Flow Logs)
    • Service Connector Hub - 2 service connectors

  • Storage

    • Archive Storage - 10 GB
    • Block Volume - 2 volumes, 200 GB total
    • Object Storage Standard - 10 GB
    • Object Storage Infrequent Access - 10 GB

  • Other

    • Email Delivery - 3,000 emails sent per day
    • 5 Private CA and 150 private TLS certificates

  • Full, detailed list - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

  • Service Availability per region - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/data-regions/

Container Platform

• Verrazzano - A hybrid multi-cloud Enterprise Container Platform

Databases

• MySQL Community Server - the world's most popular open-source database
• NoSQL Database Community Edition - for low latency, flexible data models and elastic scale
• Oracle Database Express Edition - the ideal way to get started with Oracle Database
• Oracle Database Free - access to the newest features of the next-generation Oracle Database
• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Express Edition - the fastest OLTP database

Database Tools

• Application Express (APEX) - a low-code development platform
• Developer Tools for Visual Studio - tightly integrated Oracle Database tools "Add-in"
• Developer Tools for VS Code - tools for editing and executing SQL and PL/SQL in Oracle Database
• MySQL Workbench - cross-platform, visual database design tool for MySQL
• REST Data Services (ORDS) - bridges HTTPS and your Oracle Database
• SQLcl - command line interface for Oracle Database
• SQL Developer - integrated development and management environment for Oracle Database
• SQL Developer Data Modeler - graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies data modeling tasks

Graph

• PGQL - Property Graph Query Language

In-Memory

• Coherence Community Edition - in-memory data grid
• Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Express Edition - the fastest OLTP database

Java

• GraalVM - High Performance JDK with JIT and AOT compilation
• Helidon - a set of Java libraries for writing microservices
• Java - the Language of Possibilities
• VisualVM - All-in-One Java Troubleshooting Tool

JavaScript

• JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) - collection of open source JavaScript libraries
• GraalJS - Run JavaScript applications faster and more efficiently on GraalVM

Linux

• Oracle Linux - 100% application binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Machine Learning

• Skater - Unified framework to enable ML Model Interpretation
• Tribuo - Machine learning library written in Java

Python

• GraalPy - High-Performance Python runtime powered by GraalVM

Ruby

• TruffleRuby - Run Ruby applications faster and more efficiently on GraalVM

Serverless

• Fn Project - open source container-native serverless platform

Source Code Management

• OpenGrok - source code search and cross reference engine

Virtualization

• VirtualBox - powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product