RDS for Oracle releases
RDS for Oracle supports multiple Oracle Database releases.
Note
For information about upgrading your releases, see Upgrading the RDS for Oracle DB engine.
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Oracle Database 26ai with Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS supports Oracle Database 26ai only in Enterprise Edition. Oracle released Oracle Database 26ai for Linux x86-64 as Enterprise Edition only; Standard Edition 2 (SE2) isn't available for Oracle Database 26ai on this platform. Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0) includes many new features and updates from the previous version. As with Oracle Database 21c, Oracle Database 26ai supports only the multitenant architecture: you can't create a database as a traditional non-CDB. To learn more about the differences between CDBs and non-CDBs, see Limitations of RDS for Oracle CDBs.
In this section, you can find the features and changes important to using Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0) on Amazon RDS.
For a complete list of the changes, see the Oracle Database 26ai
Amazon RDS parameter changes for Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0)
Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0) includes several new parameters and parameters with new ranges and new default values.
New parameters
The following table shows the new Amazon RDS parameters for Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0).
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Name |
Range of values |
Default value |
Modifiable |
Description |
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N |
Specifies whether the distributed transaction recovery process (RECO) uses the legacy recovery protocol or the upgraded protocol. |
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N |
Controls whether deprecated or weak algorithms can be used with the DBMS_CRYPTO package. |
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Y |
Specifies the maximum idle time (in days) that can be set when creating a blockchain or immutable table without the TABLE RETENTION privilege. |
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Y |
Specifies the start of the fiscal year for use with SQL fiscal functions. |
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Y |
Specifies the number of rows to be prefetched by the Oracle client driver to reduce network roundtrips. |
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Y |
Enables or disables automatic tablespace rekey recovery on Data Guard standby instances. |
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Y |
Specifies the default credential for the session. |
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Y |
Controls whether the database raises additional stacked error messages with details about data values encountering an error. |
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Y |
Controls whether a positive integer in a GROUP BY clause is treated as the ordinal position of an expression in the select list. |
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N |
Enables or disables hybrid read-only mode for a PDB, allowing CDB common users to perform patching while local users see read-only mode. |
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Y |
Specifies default behaviors at the session level for SQL/JSON functions and conditions. |
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Y |
Enables or disables JSON query statement checking. |
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Y |
Enables or disables lockfree reservation. |
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Y |
Enables or disables Wide Tables, which increases the maximum column limit to 4096. |
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Y |
Specifies the maximum duration for a saga (in seconds). |
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Y |
Specifies the size of the ingest buffer in the large pool of the SGA. |
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Y |
Controls whether fast ingest is used automatically for Memoptimized Rowstore tables or only when the MEMOPTIMIZE_WRITE hint is specified. |
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N |
Specifies the maximum value to which MEMORY_SIZE can be set. |
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N |
Specifies the size of instance-wide usable memory (combined SGA and PGA). |
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Y |
Enables or disables the Multilingual Engine (MLE), or selectively enables certain languages. |
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N |
Enables or disables strictly durable query data gets. |
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Y |
Controls the mode to ignore or raise PDB lockdown errors. |
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Y |
Specifies whether dynamic statistics are generated for PL/SQL functions at the session level. |
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Y |
Enables or disables implicit conversions in PL/SQL between numeric, character, and BOOLEAN data types. |
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Y |
Specifies the maximum seconds a HIGH priority transaction waits for a row lock before rolling back the blocker. |
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Y |
Specifies the maximum seconds a MEDIUM priority transaction waits for a row lock before rolling back the blocker. |
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Y |
Specifies the mode for Priority Transactions (ROLLBACK to enable, TRACK to monitor without enforcement). |
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Y |
Enables or disables read-only mode for a user session. |
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Y |
Enables or disables adaptive result cache object exclusion. |
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Y |
Specifies whether the database enforces result cache integrity for deterministic constructs. |
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Y |
Specifies the types of AWR snapshots for which ADDM can be run inside an AWR report. |
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Y |
Forces a hard session exit when a session's PL/SQL package state has been invalidated if enabled. |
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Y |
Controls the behavior for SODA (Simple Oracle Document Access) operations. |
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Y |
Enables or disables automatic error mitigation for SQL statements. |
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Y |
Enables or disables SQL history monitoring for user-issued statements in each session. |
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Y |
Enables or disables the SQL Transpiler, which automatically converts PL/SQL functions into SQL expressions. |
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Y |
Specifies the standby parse time limit (in seconds). |
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Y |
Specifies the statement redirect service. |
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Y |
Specifies the default tablespace encryption block cipher mode. |
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Y |
Uses the DB timezone when computing the current time. |
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Y |
Enables or disables output of trace record security label prefix. |
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Y |
Specifies whether transaction recovery is enabled or disabled for a PDB. |
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Y |
Specifies the priority for all user transactions in a session. |
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N |
Controls whether columns containing sensitive data are populated in the UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL view. |
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Y |
Specifies whether HNSW reload is enabled. |
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Y |
Specifies the size of the Vector Pool in the SGA. |
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Y |
Enables or disables capture of query vectors. |
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Y |
Enables or disables XML client-side decoding. |
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Y |
Handles invalid characters during xmlelement. |
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Y |
Specifies parameters to alter XML behavior. |
Changes for the compatible parameter
The compatible parameter has a new maximum value for Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0) on Amazon RDS.
The following table shows the new default value.
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Parameter name |
Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0) maximum value |
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23.6.0 |
Removed parameters
The following parameters were removed in Oracle Database 26ai (26.0.0.0):
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allow_deprecated_rpcs -
audit_sys_operations -
log_archive_start
Oracle Database 21c with Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS supports Oracle Database 21c, which includes Oracle Enterprise Edition and Oracle Standard Edition 2. Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0) includes many new features and updates from the previous version. A key change is that Oracle Database 21c supports only the multitenant architecture: you can no longer create a database as a traditional non-CDB. To learn more about the differences between CDBs and non-CDBs, see Limitations of RDS for Oracle CDBs.
In this section, you can find the features and changes important to using Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0) on Amazon RDS.
For a complete list of the changes, see the Oracle database 21c
Amazon RDS parameter changes for Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0)
Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0) includes several new parameters and parameters with new ranges and new default values.
New parameters
The following table shows the new Amazon RDS parameters for Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0).
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Name |
Range of values |
Default value |
Modifiable |
Description |
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Y |
Lets you control the maximum amount of idle time that can be specified when creating a blockchain table. |
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N |
Allows you to enable or disable dbNest. DbNest provides operating system resource isolation and management, file system isolation, and secure computing for PDBs. |
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N |
Specifies the dbNest file system configuration file for a PDB. |
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IGNORE |
Y |
Allows you to control and monitor the users who perform potentially unsafe database diagnostic operations. |
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YES |
Y |
Enables or disables the use of dedicated optimization with Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP). |
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N |
Controls whether Database Resident Connection Pooling (DRCP) configures one connection pool for the entire CDB or one isolated connection pool for each PDB. |
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Y |
Enables or disables deep vectorization for In-Memory column store scans. |
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N/A |
N |
Specifies the mandatory user profile for a CDB or PDB. |
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Y |
Enables or disables the automatic creation of SQL Quarantine configurations. |
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Y |
Enables or disables the use of SQL Quarantine configurations. |
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Y |
Specifies the maximum number of times a PL/SQL function can be executed before its result is stored in the result cache. |
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Y |
Specifies the percentage of |
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Y |
Specifies the maximum amount of temporary tablespace (in bytes) that can be consumed by the result cache. |
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Y |
Indicates a possible minimum value for SGA usage of a pluggable database (PDB). |
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AES128 |
Y |
Specifies the default algorithm the database uses when encrypting a tablespace. |
Changes for the compatible parameter
The compatible parameter has a new maximum value for Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0) on Amazon RDS.
The following table shows the new default value.
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Parameter name |
Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0) maximum value |
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21.0.0 |
Removed parameters
The following parameters were removed in Oracle Database 21c (21.0.0.0):
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remote_os_authent -
sec_case_sensitive_logon -
unified_audit_sga_queue_size
Oracle Database 19c with Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS supports Oracle Database 19c, which includes Oracle Enterprise Edition and Oracle Standard Edition Two.
Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0) includes many new features and updates from the previous version. In
this section, you can find the features and changes important to using Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0) on
Amazon RDS. For a complete list of the changes, see the Oracle database
19c
Amazon RDS parameter changes for Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0)
Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0) includes several new parameters and parameters with new ranges and new default values.
New parameters
The following table shows the new Amazon RDS parameters for Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0).
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Name |
Values |
Modifiable |
Description |
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TRUE, FALSE (default) |
Y |
Enables or disables the LOB locator signature feature. |
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1 to 1024, or AUTO |
Y |
Specifies the maximum number of parallel processes allowed for each Oracle Data Pump job. |
Changes to the compatible parameter
The compatible parameter has a new maximum value for Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0) on Amazon RDS.
The following table shows the new default value.
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Parameter name |
Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0) maximum value |
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19.0.0 |
Removed parameters
The following parameters were removed in Oracle Database 19c (19.0.0.0):
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exafusion_enabled -
max_connections -
o7_dictionary_access