HeatWave was made available as part of the OCI Always Free service, which allows enterprises to develop and run small-scale applications using HeatWave MySQL, analytics, machine learning, JaveScript, HeatWave Vector Store, and process data in the Object Store.
“All OCI accounts receive access to a standalone HeatWave instance in OCI in their home region, along with 50GB of storage and 50GB of backup storage, for an unlimited period. They also receive a $300 credit to use on all eligible OCI services for up to 30 days,” the company explained.
Updates to HeatWave running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) have also been added to HeatWave on AWS. These features and capabilities include generative AI updates, Lakehouse updates, native JavaScript support, and automatic indexing.