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I thought the holy grail of the web scale is being able to start with little (startups cannot pay 80K for a licence), then painlessly scale the thing. What they
by snitko 17y ago
I thought the holy grail of the web scale is being able to start with little (startups cannot pay 80K for a licence), then painlessly scale the thing. What they offer seems more like a better price option for large enterprise solutions - licence is (supposedly) cheaper than the cost of scaling. And that's cool, ok. But, personally, what I would like to be able to do is to launch a small application with a DB holding, say, 10K records and then scale it up to billions of records investing money when I actually have them. Or not.
- ErrantX 17y agoAgreed. We purchase an Oracle driven enterprise app that would probably be the target market for this. We would hold billions of records if it was economical to do so - the problem is that 80K is a lot and it is probably cheaper to pay me to do 3hrs a week maintenance/backup. The other area we might have used this is somewhere we have about 40 billion database entries (several TB's of data) and growing. However, like Google et al, once you get to that scale it's not worth paying for a proprietary service because cheap/comodity hardware on a FOSS stack is a lot cheaper. However, there is almost certainly a market here for "enterprise" type businesses (you know, the sort of grey faced telecoms-style place). The problem is supplanting Oracle...
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