If you have ever worked with them you'd know why. They really are terrible. They get huge piles of money just to get started on a project and insist on a contract full of loopholes that leaves the customer (victim?) having to either pay significant amounts of money to finish the project or abandon it.
LE net worth is around $67B USD so someone must be buying their $hit...
If you wanted big databases, Oracle used to be the only game in town. Their competitors didn't have enough market share to fully compete in terms of resources, training, and service. Thus, organizations have a lot of software designed around Oracle DB's. It's not easy to migrate all that existing SQL quickly.
However, orgs have more choices now in general such that Oracle is looking stagnant. If they don't find a new rabbit to pull out of
No Oracle fanboy here. But I must say that it scales better than SQL Server 2016 does. I have the same code-base make regression test with the same data set against Oracle 12 and SQL Server 16 databases. Each run on separate, but similar specced bare metal systems.
Oracle finishes on average 15 minutes earlier than SQL Server does with a "static" data set. Then I continue with regression tests which have a very dynamic data set (generating lots of dummy data) and Oracle finishes between 30 to 45 minutes earl
What about compared to DB2? I will agree that on the high-end Oracle is hard to beat, but most orgs have a lot of medium and small DB's also. They used to put all of them on Oracle, but now often put the mid & low end on MS or open source DBs. Supporting a single vendor's product is usually easier staff-wise, but Oracle is too expensive for the smallish projects.
Towards the end of my career with a manufacturing company based (at the time) in the Pacific NW, we were looking to evaluate SQL database's. There were three platforms to test: Oracle on Sequent, DB2 on a Power based IBM system and Teradata.
One of my superiors designed a decision support database using our data to run benchmarks. I was on the hardware support side (I got to pull hard drives out of the banks of the systems while they were running query's, pull power cords from processor boxes, network cables
Not only the cloud (Score:5, Informative)
The rest of Oracle too.
Re:Not only the cloud (Score:5, Informative)
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If you wanted big databases, Oracle used to be the only game in town. Their competitors didn't have enough market share to fully compete in terms of resources, training, and service. Thus, organizations have a lot of software designed around Oracle DB's. It's not easy to migrate all that existing SQL quickly.
However, orgs have more choices now in general such that Oracle is looking stagnant. If they don't find a new rabbit to pull out of
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No Oracle fanboy here. But I must say that it scales better than SQL Server 2016 does. I have the same code-base make regression test with the same data set against Oracle 12 and SQL Server 16 databases. Each run on separate, but similar specced bare metal systems.
Oracle finishes on average 15 minutes earlier than SQL Server does with a "static" data set. Then I continue with regression tests which have a very dynamic data set (generating lots of dummy data) and Oracle finishes between 30 to 45 minutes earl
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What about compared to DB2? I will agree that on the high-end Oracle is hard to beat, but most orgs have a lot of medium and small DB's also. They used to put all of them on Oracle, but now often put the mid & low end on MS or open source DBs. Supporting a single vendor's product is usually easier staff-wise, but Oracle is too expensive for the smallish projects.
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Towards the end of my career with a manufacturing company based (at the time) in the Pacific NW, we were looking to evaluate SQL database's. There were three platforms to test: Oracle on Sequent, DB2 on a Power based IBM system and Teradata.
One of my superiors designed a decision support database using our data to run benchmarks. I was on the hardware support side (I got to pull hard drives out of the banks of the systems while they were running query's, pull power cords from processor boxes, network cables
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François Duvalier (Papa Doc) did pretty well for himself, but that doesn't mean the Haitians enjoyed his presidency.