https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/07/20/how_amazon_broke_free_from_oracle/
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I used to work in development at Oracle. As such I needed to set up a lot of test databases, make changes to them, etc. It was agony. I can't imagine how anyone manages to get real work done with that thing. Connection specifications written in LISP? Give me a break. And PLSQL - gag.
But once you have it working, you hate to have to touch it again for fear you will break it, much less migrate to anything else.
Oracle sucks. It will never catch aws even by hiring Amazon’s 3rd stringers. No one even cares about Oracle any more. My entire support org and customer success don’t give a cr-p about customers. There are customers that can’t even handle the simplest of tasks. Oracle is typically a mistake for many unless you got hand picked and groomed like CM and have a bunch of RSU’s. Even in my metro city, if I tell people I work for Oracle, they ask “what is that?” I just laugh and say it doesnt matter.
The issue is it is extremely complex and costly to get off Oracle DB dictatorship
This article appears to be a direct jab at Oracle by AWS. I thought it was just price that caused them to move, but apparently Oracle DB was just not good enough the handle the expanding load.
In July 2015, Amazon introduced Prime Day, a massive price promotion involving more than two million deals. Prime Day pushed Amazon to the point where it had no choice but to migrate away from Oracle. Both the transactional databases and the data warehouses were reaching breaking point. The team needed time each year to design and prepare new servers to meet the additional transactional demand, but the extra spikes in workload had compressed that window. “Prior to Prime Day 2015, Amazon had almost 10 months to prepare and scale for the next peak event, “ Park says. “ However since Prime Day was held mid-year, we now had only four-to-five months to prepare for the next peak events... We were starting to see scaling issues. We couldn't possibly push out the hardware fast enough.”
Lots of other problems with Oracle DB mentioned, and then they tell you how to migrate off of oracle. LOL! JB has it in for LE. AWS will lead the way to Orahole's demise!
Down goes the ship, LE!
Oracle survival depends on ability of others to replace Oracle DB
Good for Amazon!! "Amazon migrated almost 7,500 databases during the three-year transition period..." I guess the message is: If they can do it, then others can too. The last 3 words of the article are: "Sponsored by AWS". But still. Good for them.