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Re:A rant on web font licenses by capableweb on Friday March 10, 2023 @10:56AM (#35096007)
Oracle still does a lot of fuckery with their licenses. For example, you're prevented to share any benchmarks you've performed with their software. Not sure it's been proven in court that you could prevent anyone from sharing such information, but at least they're trying.
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Re:A rant on web font licenses by dsr_ on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:10AM (#35096257)
It's true.

Now, completely without benchmarks, I can tell you that my workplace has migrated from Oracle to Postgresql and performance is essentially the same: a few things were a little faster on Oracle, a few a little faster on PG. All revenue is directly or indirectly dependent on the database systems, which have been continuous for 20+ years: this is not a side-project.

PG administration is much, much faster. Starting an Oracle database always involves a wait similar to booting an elderly operating system. Starting a PG database is fast. Things that Oracle will want to up-charge you to an Enterprise Edition license for, PG has for free. Want to spin up a new machine? No need to negotiate a new license with PG. The cost of the Oracle license would routinely be so large that you need to buy awesome hardware to justify it. You can install PG on anything, and justify it.

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Re:A rant on web font licenses by tiffanyh on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:23AM (#35096493)
Does your database run on NVMe SSDs?

I ask because NVMe has neutralized a ton of performance differences across data related products.

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Re:A rant on web font licenses by dsr_ on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:52PM (#35099129)
It did in the last generation of Oracle and this generation of PG.
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Re:A rant on web font licenses by thr717272 on Friday March 10, 2023 @11:45AM (#35096856)
Not only that but Postgres doesn't take two days to install properly. (Admittedly I'm talking a full from scratch Red Hat server with Oracle DB, Oracle managed data disks and Apex, bit still.)
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