Comment by lucianbr
5 days ago
I'm guessing nobody chooses to work with Oracle anymore for reasons or in situations that we would consider reasonable. It's probably either governments contracts, with or without corruption, companies already locked in, contracts made by executives that don't really understand technology, that sort of thing.
I worked as a contractor for the Wisconsin state government and they had hundreds of Oracle databases that they were consolidating on the Oracle EXADATA11 servers. Insane having hardware that can only run Oracle but the Oracle DBA said that the Exadata was dozens of times faster than Oracle on VMware VMs.
Lies. Fucking lies. We were a three environment shop until we moved to Exa and the compute/$ ratio is so bad that we had to cut it down to two.
But we're talking about Oracle here so that's par for the course.
I didn't make any claims about performance per $, just relative performance compared to VMs. I hate Oracle as much as anyone but the EXADATA is impressive hardware. It has lots of RAM and Infiniband networking. It can push query predicates to the storage controllers to reduce the data that had to be transferred.
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Actually, it is mostly companies who are too reluctant to change. If it works, keep it as is, even if better technologies are the norm nowadays. Maybe this will help them move away from this obsolete Larry Ellison crapshot
If it works, keep it as is
That's a good principle though. It doesn't make the initial choice good today or even back then. But change is always a risk that may not be worth it, cause you have to make sure that the inevitable semi-chaos coming with it is at all times lower than what you have. And analyzing that may be hard.
Maybe this will help them move away from this obsolete Larry Ellison crapshot
This creates positive incentives, so yes.
Iow, everything probably goes as it should, really.
I somewhat agree. I think for tangible things (cars), you don't need to reinvent the wheel. But, tech moves fast. If a superior tech (for instance, more secure) is available but requires some discomfort (moving things around), then it is worth it to avoid this type of crap
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