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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by jchrisa on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:38PM (#19292027)
If you are doing financial services like insurance or banking, you might be stuck on Oracle because you need active active worldwide database replication and none of the 1st-gen NoSQLs offer global ACID transactions. As someone who's been working in databases for over a decade I've seen customers develop database evaluation strategies, but still be unable to migrate away from Oracle. That is changing with the distributed ACID transactions offered by databases like my employer FaunaDB.
Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by jefftk on Saturday March 02, 2019 @10:59PM (#19292631)
Doesn't Spanner support ACID transactions?

(Disclosure: I work for Google)

Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by mav3rick on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:55AM (#19319816)
Yes it does.