Gerald Venzl’s images ( gvenzl/oracle-free) in the flavours thin, regular, full and faststart.

Oracle’s official image ( /database/free).

There are two distributions for the Docker image: The Oracle Database 23c Free is available as Linux RPM, VirtualBox VM or Docker image. The release date of Oracle Database 23c Free.

So, I lived with my Oracle Database under Windows. I tried other solutions based on QEMU like UTM, but the performance was unbearable slow. And the performance was similar to the Oracle Databases that ran in a Docker container on my Mac mini Server with a 2.3 GHz Intel Quad-Core i7.

As far as I remember I did not experience a single crash. Microsoft did a tremendous job running Intel-based software under Windows on ARM.

My solution was to run Windows on ARM in Parallels Desktop and install the Oracle Database there. However, I like the ability to develop offline and I often need an Oracle Database. Most of my colleagues decided to go with a database instance in the cloud. At that time, the M1 chip had already been on the market for a year and I knew that there were problems when running virtual machines or Docker containers with the Intel x86_64 architecture. I got my MacBook Pro 16″ with an Apple M1 Max chip with 10 cores, 64 GB RAM and 4 TB disk in November 2021.

DBeaver 23.3.0 Ultimate Edition free