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Connor McDonald

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Asked: July 05, 2016 - 6:44 am UTC

Last updated: July 06, 2016 - 3:44 am UTC

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Hello AskTom Team,
I have been working with Oracle Database for over a decade and half. With the recent shift of Companies wanting to put their systems in Cloud rather then on prem What is the future of Oracle.

I just attended a Amazon AWS immersion day and it made me nervous.

What is Oracle's CLoud offering to compete with AMAZON or AZure.

I see all my Developer/DBA skills obsolete with this new paradigm shift.

Amazon and Azure are offering hard to beat prices for their Cloud Databases and Cloud Architecture.

This worries my, Since I love Oracle and Oracle is what I have been doing Databases , Databases , Databases !!!

I hope Oracle is not sleeping like IBM giants were sleeping when Microsoft was just a tiny little baby early in the 80's-90's.

Why would anyone want to use Expensive Oracle Database when there are better cheaper alternatives available.

Facebook and twitter use casandra, no one wants to use Oracle Database for huge Data computations. They want us to learn hadoop, pig, hive.
NO relational , use NOSQL, use Files.

Help me Lord. Wake up Oracle please, Do something .

If you are already doing something Say and show something. Oracle's Cloud footprint is very negligible.

Please wake up before its too late in the Game. When we get sales rep from Competitors, Oracle is always the loser because of its stubborn high pricing models. AWS redshift and Azure are just taking over like a Trojan Horse

So what should an Oracle guy do with tons of Oracle only experience But its now very cloudy and Raining and pouring ?


and Connor said...

You're blurring a few topics here

1) cloud vs premise

Makes no difference to your skillset. Whether your Oracle database is in the server room next to your office, or in a server room 2000 miles away, its still an Oracle database.

Check out https://cloud.oracle.com/home We've got products left, right and centre to cover all sorts of levels and need.

2) relational vs nosql

You'll hear a term "polyglot persistence", which is hip and trendy way of saying "right tool for the right job". A relational database gives you ACID, read consistency and many other cool things. For my financial transactions - man do I want that. But for (say) my application logs...I can probably live without ACID - I dont care if I drop 1 out of every 100,000 logs. So perhaps I'll use a NoSQL solution for that (and yes...we've got one).

3) data vs bigdata

I hear this all the time: "Facebook uses X, so we should use X", "Google uses Y, so we should use Y".

That is totally fine ... if you *are* Facebook or Google, or are going to be be the *next* Faceook or Google. If you need to store petabytes of video and photos, and your company is 50% software engineers, then by all means.... Cassandra is quite possibly your best bet.

But if you are like 99.99999% of customers who have data requirements not at that scale, then a relational database, and perhaps some NoSQL technology will be absolutely fine for you.

And whether that technology is on site, or in the cloud, or anywhere else for that matter...makes no difference to the need for expertise to utilise it intelligently.

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