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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Re: Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Post by gerdesj »

vkaku wrote: post #4
vkaku wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It shows that a big company like Amazon, hiring thousands of SDEs still needed other vendors software than their own, because of all that time they spent in hiring and firing people and obsessing over their customers needs. sarcasm

Also, MySQL is technically , an Oracle database (after Sun got bought out). Now they should write some migrations to turn all of that off. sarcasm intensifies

MariaDB - https://mariadb.org/about/

Re: Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database

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Post by danesparza »

The very fact that they are dogfooding DynamoDB (with core features of their business) makes me want to take it more seriously and use it more.

I also love that they didn't just replace Oracle with but instead thoughtfully pieced together a strategy based on what the data was going to be used for.

Well done!

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Post by dreamcompiler »

hanniabu wrote: post #14
godson_drafty wrote: post #8

The developer carrying it out still using 2015 MBP

My 2011 MBP is still my primary. This is the case for a lot of people because the newer versions just don't compare. On to of that you can't even upgrade the components in them since everything is integrated into the board.

Ditto. My 2011 MBP is a truck that just won't quit. Although I've replaced just about everything in it but the processor, the fact that I was able to do so makes me love the machine.

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Post by mooreds »

victor106 wrote: post #17

> The migration gave each internal team the freedom to choose the purpose-built AWS database service that best fit their needs, and also gave them better control over their budget and their cost model. Anyone know of a comprehensive resource that we could use to figure out which DB to use?

Depends on what you mean by comprehensive. https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/ is a good place to start.

After that I'd do some PoCs or talk to a consultant.

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Post by sovnade »

cwyers wrote: post #15
mumblemumble wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not. Amazon accomplished the task by building their own Oracle replacement. You have to be approximately as large as Amazon for that to be a realistic option. If you'd like to use the alternatives that Amazon built, you can, of course, migrate to Amazon Web Services. Though, if you dislike the vendor lock-in you're experiencing with Oracle, and are considering Amazon as a good place to flee to, you possibly hav…

Most places likely aren't using Oracle at Amazon's scale, either. I suspect that one of MySQL, Postgres or Microsoft SQL Server can fill in for Oracle if you have access to the source code and can make changes yourself. (If you've bought software that is Oracle-only, then it's not an option -- but it wasn't an option for Amazon, either). I suspect that in a lot of cases, this will pay for itself, but it might take 10…

Depending on the size of your install, there are companies that are very good at converting over something like Oracle to Postgres for probably much less than you'd expect. With the price of oracle licensing, your break-even could be in a year or two.
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