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Walking: free. Car: not free. Therefore walk everywhere since a free alternative is available? The thing is, 250k of benefits as two and a half engineers. I don
by houseabsolute 16y ago
Walking: free. Car: not free. Therefore walk everywhere since a free alternative is available? The thing is, 250k of benefits as two and a half engineers. I don't know Oracle software at all, but I imagine there are a number of use cases where their advantage over mysql would be at least that much.
- amock 16y agoWalking isn't always better, but it can be a viable alternative and there are options in between. As far as I know there is no cheap alternative to Oracle RAC, but I know that there are cases where using a combination of Hadoop and PostgreSQL can replace an Oracle DB.
- bretpiatt 16y agoSeems like you agree with the existing point, "Walking (the free database alternative) isn't always better ... As far as I know there is no cheap alternative to Oracle RAC (the same point can be made to no cheap alternative for having a car which is better in some situations as you just agreed)." This doesn't mean the open source community should just give up on making a database capable of meeting the needs RAC does today -- at the same time it also doesn't mean business should only use the free alternative when it is a more efficient use of resources for them to purchase RAC.
- amock 16y agoYes, I agree with the existing point and was just adding some additional opinion.