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Whenever I see something like this that is "autonomous" I always wonder how far that really is from what they promise.
Re:Cloud DB War: Autonomous Databases on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:58PM (#15411122)
How can we even know #18c will do anything? it sounded like a bunch of buzzwords!

Oracle is so late to the game its gonna take a miracle for them to make a dent in AWS

I disagree. The main changes I feel are the ones caused by the business requirements. Where I see the most changes in the past couple of years are the requirements from our marketing team, their data is a freaking mess!
Re:How to calculate Amazon Redshift pricing? on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:56PM (#14713882)
This is interesting but how do I compare between Redshift, Bigquery and snowflake pricing?
Cassandra takes'em both
Load Balancing is one of the biggest challenges when working with Redshift. They have that stupid concurrency issue.