The Oracle Autonomous JSON Database is exactly what the name states – it's the document-based edition of the Oracle Database that stores data natively as JSON documents and collections.

Ever since Oracle extended its self-driving database and aggressively priced it for JSON developers, we've been wondering when they would come out and meet MongoDB developers where they live.

Oracle has introduced the availability of Autonomous JSON Database-a new developer-friendly database service. Autonomous JSON Database stores JSON documents in a native tree-oriented binary format.

XML, graph, spatial and JSON document data can all be managed inside the core Oracle database engine. “With the others, you don’t get any of the benefits of a converged database,” Venzl said.

With Autonomous Database, Oracle automates and manages everything—unlike when you are running an on-prem database, Database Cloud service, or Exadata Cloud service. This allows users to spend less ...