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Re:At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced... by outworlder on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:07PM (#18611382)
Have you tried to scale horizontally with Oracle?
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Re:At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced... by DiabloD3 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:17PM (#18611478)
Oracle scales horizontally perfectly... even up to hundreds of cores, it runs just as fast.
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Re:At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced... by diminoten on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:18PM (#18611481)
Yes, and I cried when I saw the bill.

FWIW I much prefer Postgres to Oracle, but not because of the technology as much as the price.

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