Misc.Dec 19, 2018
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No one in their right mind would move from Oracle to AWS

During a conference call after releasing its second quarter earnings, Ellison highlighted why he believes his company's databases are better than Amazon's, saying: "We have a huge technology leadership in database over Amazon. In terms of technology, there is no way that... any normal person would move from an Oracle database to an Amazon database." During the AWS re:Invent conference last month, AWS CTO Werner Vogels gave an in-depth talk explaining why Amazon had decided to turn of its Oracle data warehouse and these remarks certainly got to Ellison. From Oracle on-premise to Oracle public cloud Ellison continued his rant on why moving from Oracle to AWS was a hassle highlighting how expensive and complicated the process is, saying: ā€œYou've got to be willing to give up tons of reliability, tons of security, tons of performance... Nobody, save maybe Jeff Bezos, gave the command, 'I want to get off the Oracle database." According to Ellison, Oracle will keep its 50 per cent relational database market share but the company will also expand it through the combination of its new Generation 2 Cloud infrastructure and its autonomous database technology. He stressed his point further, saying: "You will see rapid migration of Oracle from on-premise to the Oracle public cloud. Nobody else is going to go through that forced march to go on to the Amazon database."

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Oracle trossac Dec 19, 2018

So whatā€™s your statement here? We suck, you rule? Amen to that.

Microsoft Username Ā· Dec 19, 2018

Post title claims the opposite :) Happy holidays, btw.

Oracle trossac Dec 19, 2018

Post too long. I just assumed the default.

Boeing Airbus Dec 19, 2018

Is he entirely wrong? How many fortune 500 moved away from Oracle to AWS?

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daring Dec 19, 2018

Actually there is a huge cry in the market place to move off Oracle to in house developed distributed transactional DB (Amzn Aurora, Google Spanner, YugaByte, etc). These are much faster and lightweight and cheaper than Oracle which cannot scale out very much. Then there are KV Stores such as Cassandra (key-column-value of Megastore variant), and MongoDB who are eating Oracles lunch in the other categories. Oracle is in a tough spot IMO.

LinkedIn Gill Bates Dec 19, 2018

If you're moving from Oracle to MongoDB, either Oracle wasn't a good choice initially (didn't need ACID or full durability) or your CTO is criminally incompetent/on drugs.

Amazon kudobear Dec 19, 2018

Didn't daring mentioned Aurora and other cloud offering for relational database? Aurora is Enterprise grade (oracle) with 1/10 of oracle's cost....

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Amazon šŸŒ² šŸŽ„ šŸŒ² šŸŽ„ OP Dec 19, 2018

ā€œStart to stopā€ - did you fail high school?

Salesforce vbhdhkbcs Dec 19, 2018

Even Oracle employees don't defend Oracle on Blind ... Sad!

Oracle mqMs36 Dec 19, 2018

why should we if company treats us badly?

Facebook Gush3 Dec 19, 2018

Move to Amazon and it only gets worse

Microsoft Tier 1 Dec 19, 2018

Right. Because any normal person wouldnā€™t be using an oracle database to begin with

Amazon ChadšŸ•¶ Dec 19, 2018

All I'm saying is, Elasticsearch is definitely faster than searching in Oracle

Google amzng123 Dec 19, 2018

Problem is that AWS's cloud is more superior to Oracle's cloud than Oracle's DB is to any DB that can be run on AWS. If Larry makes his DB multi cloud, he'll be ok. But he won't bc his ego is too big, so he'll lose instead.

Oracle MiddleWest Dec 19, 2018

I donā€™t know that you can run an Oracle data warehouse on other clouds; you can still setup Oracle via RDS though. I still am not clear on what Oracleā€™s non-relational DB offerings are.

Amazon PumpkinšŸ§ Dec 19, 2018

How is that a problem?

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Amazon ē±³åˆ†ē³øå·„å„³ä¹ƒč±†é  Dec 19, 2018

Nobody cares how advanced you are if you gouge customers for performance of the machine and the competitor is free.