A fully automated cloud database service optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, and data lakes. It is preconfigured with columnar format, partitioning, and large joins to simplify and accelerate database provisioning, extracting, loading, and transforming data; running sophisticated reports; generating predictions; and creating machine learning models. With Autonomous Database, data scientists, business analysts, and non-experts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built on Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Database is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for shared or dedicated deployments, and on-premises with Exadata Cloud@Customer and Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer.