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Ask HN: Why is Oracle still the best database?

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Re: Ask HN: Why is Oracle still the best database?

#11

Post by samsaga2 » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:35 AM UTC

Fixing Oracle bugs, it's like a knightmare.

#12

Post by tacostakohashi » Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

It's the best at abstracting away problems so that developers can focus on their application's functionality.

#13

Post by znpy » Sat, Apr 01, 2023, 9:45 PM UTC

Friendly reminder that Oracle has no customers, only hostages.

#14

Post by Tostino » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:04 PM UTC

markus_zhang wrote: post #10

meepmorp wrote: post #8

DB2 >>> Oracle

Never got the chance to use DB2. Any reason?

They have great temporal query features I know. Pretty much most of the advanced SQL standard they have implemented. More than any other at least.

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