Re:"SQLite is not designed to replace Oracle. It is designed...
by Groxx on Saturday July 30, 2011 @02:27AM
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Mostly echoing tomjen3 in this, but:
Oracle isn't selling databases. They're selling database support. Similar to how IBM operates - they make good stuff, but you're really not paying for the hardware. If you were, they'd be outrageously expensive compared to something built more simply - see Backblaze, for an example: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h... .
Oracle isn't selling databases. They're selling database support. Similar to how IBM operates - they make good stuff, but you're really not paying for the hardware. If you were, they'd be outrageously expensive compared to something built more simply - see Backblaze, for an example: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h... .