Re: Is Oracle faster/easier than mySQL
From: steph <stephan0h_at_yahoo.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <f5b74bc4-0c07-4ed5-9439-57fa1c30dbcc_at_e2g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>
On 10 Mrz., 01:33, jgar the jorrible <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 1:16 pm, 2005 <FW3..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > I am deciding on a database sw for a future startup.
>
> > Which one is better?
>
> > Also what would it cost for Oracle? Is this subscription or one time
> > pay?
>
> It kinda depends on what you are doing. With mysql, there are plenty
> of kids who do "interesting" things. At some point, you get into
> scalability issues.
>
> Oracle's big strengths are scalability and concurrency issues. If all
> you are doing is trying to serve up pretty pictures to get VC money,
> mysql is probably for you. If you are doing serious transactional
> work like you want to be the next Amazon, Oracle is probably for you.
>
> Oracle licensing lets you develop prototypes for free, and even have
> small databases free for production use (see Oracle XE), but you'll be
> paying big bucks when you get to serious transaction levels. You can
> get some idea of the costs from the Oracle store, but you may want to
> talk to a salesperson about discounts after you've established what
> kind of scale you are talking about.
>
> I've seen the "free" db's turn very expensive when they get successful
> and wind up needing dozens of programmers to do what they could have
> done just spending the money on off the shelf apps. I've also seen
> startups with stars in their eyes spend way more than they need to on
> Oracle and hardware, all obsolete by the time they fail. It's very
> difficult to plan for capacity when you don't know what will happen,
> the scalability issue can become very important.
>
> Most startups fail.
>
> Good luck.
>
> jg
> --
> _at_home.com is bogus.http://www.wisn.com/news/18796315/detail.html
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <f5b74bc4-0c07-4ed5-9439-57fa1c30dbcc_at_e2g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>
On 10 Mrz., 01:33, jgar the jorrible <joel-ga..._at_home.com> wrote:
> On Mar 9, 1:16 pm, 2005 <FW3..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > I am deciding on a database sw for a future startup.
>
> > Which one is better?
>
> > Also what would it cost for Oracle? Is this subscription or one time
> > pay?
>
> It kinda depends on what you are doing. With mysql, there are plenty
> of kids who do "interesting" things. At some point, you get into
> scalability issues.
>
> Oracle's big strengths are scalability and concurrency issues. If all
> you are doing is trying to serve up pretty pictures to get VC money,
> mysql is probably for you. If you are doing serious transactional
> work like you want to be the next Amazon, Oracle is probably for you.
>
> Oracle licensing lets you develop prototypes for free, and even have
> small databases free for production use (see Oracle XE), but you'll be
> paying big bucks when you get to serious transaction levels. You can
> get some idea of the costs from the Oracle store, but you may want to
> talk to a salesperson about discounts after you've established what
> kind of scale you are talking about.
>
> I've seen the "free" db's turn very expensive when they get successful
> and wind up needing dozens of programmers to do what they could have
> done just spending the money on off the shelf apps. I've also seen
> startups with stars in their eyes spend way more than they need to on
> Oracle and hardware, all obsolete by the time they fail. It's very
> difficult to plan for capacity when you don't know what will happen,
> the scalability issue can become very important.
>
> Most startups fail.
>
> Good luck.
>
> jg
> --
> _at_home.com is bogus.http://www.wisn.com/news/18796315/detail.html
I think I read somewhere that amazon isn't using oracle because it wouldn't be able to handle their workload. don't know if it's true ... Received on Tue Mar 10 2009 - 11:37:00 CDT