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Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by tomnipotent on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:31AM (#23092118)
> I thought that by large datasets you meant TB

Oracle DB has no problems with TB-sized datasets, and if you have that kind of data you're probably not worried about Oracle-sized licenses.

> That leaves only niches for oracle.

Why do people keep beating this dead horse? Oracle DB is backing a non-trivial % of global GDP in a large number of Fortune 500's. It's not niche, it's just not a tool you use for hosting WordPress, Magento, and RoR apps.

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Re:Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance by derefr on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:45PM (#23094040)
> and if you have that kind of data you're probably not worried about Oracle-sized licenses.

We're a two-man startup selling analytics of blockchain data. We have a several-terabyte data set and basically no hosting budget. I don't think we're all that unusual. Dataset size does not imply organizational size/budget.

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