Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change

Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change by hardwaresofton on Sunday January 29, 2017 @09:29AM (#13514251)

Welp, that's dissapointing, but it gives me a solid reason to never ever trust the claim that Oracle is "just better" than anything else. Claims without proof should hold very little weight with any critical mind. I'm totally open to the idea that Oracle is better in at least some ways (surely their engineers aren't just twiddling their thumbs all day), but I need to see it proven.

So far the features that oracle had that people have mentioned:

- An amazing query optimizer

- Replication (enabling High Availability) features available 15 years ago

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Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change by chris_wot on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:03PM (#13516251)

That query optimiser is in many ways amazing, but it's mostly undocumented and the behaviour changes from version to version of the database.

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Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change by user5994461 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:12AM (#13514419)

- Oracle was the only SQL DB able to shard. (might still be)

- Oracle was the only database able to take multi GB or TB of data in a single table/DB. (Old MySQL/Postgre had various limitations like X GB per table for a long time, they still do).

If you worked in the DB in the 200X years, Oracle was the standard and for good reasons. MySQL/Postgre were considered like toys, for good reasons.

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Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change by Dangeranger on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:39PM (#13516864)

We are not making the comparison 10 years ago, we are making it now. What real features does Oracle have that MySQL/Maria/PostgreSQL do not have now.

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Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change by user5994461 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:20PM (#13517119)

Short version: Nothing changed in 10 years :D

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