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CNBC reports Amazon Plans to Move Completely off Oracle Software by Early 2020:
Amazon's emergence as a major provider of data center technology has turned many of its longtime suppliers, including Oracle, into heated rivals.
Now Amazon is dealing yet another blow to Oracle. The e-commerce giant, having already moved much of its infrastructure internally to Amazon Web Services, plans to be completely off Oracle's proprietary database software by the first quarter of 2020, according to people familiar with the matter.
The shift is another sign of Amazon's rapid ascent in enterprise computing and further shows how much Oracle is struggling to keep pace as businesses move workloads to the cloud and away from traditional data centers. Propelled in part by expansion at AWS, which reported 49 percent revenue growth for the second quarter, Amazon passed Alphabet earlier this year to become the second most valuable publicly traded company in the world.
Meanwhile, Oracle is about the same size it was four years ago and the stock is just above where it was trading at the end of 2014. Oracle shares dropped by about 1 percent after the initial report Wednesday.
[...] The primary issue Amazon has faced on Oracle is the inability for the database technology to scale to meet Amazon's performance needs, a person familiar with the matter said. Another person, who said the move could be completed by mid-2019, added that there hasn't been any development of new technology relying on Oracle databases for quite a while.
Amazon's infrastructure is certainly not foolproof. The company's constant need for capacity upgrades turned into a near crisis during Amazon's Prime Day shopping extravaganza last month, when the company's systems proved incapable of handling a sudden traffic surge.
[...] The two companies have been in a heated war of words. Last year Oracle executives boasted about the cost advantages of using its database software. AWS CEO Andy Jassy fired back a few weeks later in an interview with CNBC, saying that Oracle is "a long way away in the cloud."
I have some Oracle experience from many years ago. Even then it was known for being very expensive, but it DID have all kinds of "knobs" you could adjust to tweak out extra performance that other databases just could not [easily] match. How well does Oracle compete today? Would you say they were worth the expense?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by requerdanos on Friday August 03 2018, @02:09PM (2 children)
Amazon, I want to encourage you.
I have "been on" Oracle database software in the past, and I agree that its handy features like sequences and robust triggers make you want to stay on it. But if you make that decision to quit completely, use auto_increment instead of sequences, and use cron job function calls in cases where triggers don't work that great, and stick with it until you get it done, your health and well-being will be assured and your referential integrity will never have looked better.
You can do it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @02:18PM
Oracle is damn quirky.
Most of that is because it is so old that it had features that were only added to the SQL standard many years later in a different form.
So, you tend to have the "standard way" and the "Oracle way."
It's a pain in the ass. Plus the old architecture (which was very good for its time) makes it harder for me to administer.
If you administer an Oracle DBMS, odds are you are an Oracle lifer.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Friday August 03 2018, @06:06PM
Postgresql has triggers and sequences, and its a bloody sight more reliable than Oracle in my experience.
Most features in Oracle are in Postgresql - implementaiton may vary, particularly where Oracle is far from standards, or just plain weird (Oracle likes weird).
Its also easier to get meaningful support for Postgresql. (Paid telephone support is also available - I have never tried it). The pain of contacting Oracle is bad enough without considering the need to actually get meaningful and helpful support. They are NOT IBM.
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