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With the amount of hype and mind share micro-services attract, I hope the era of large database clusters like Oracle comes to an end. At the system level, even
by kumarvvr 6y ago
With the amount of hype and mind share micro-services attract, I hope the era of large database clusters like Oracle comes to an end.
At the system level, even Oracle has to do some sort of message passing stuff to be able to distributed databases.
With the availability of streaming services, resilient distributed computation and data storage architectures, I hope companies like Oracle die a slow, but graceful death.
PostgreSQL and advanced database systems like FoundationDB, with help of stream / event processing systems, should be able to replace large Oracle clusters.
The problem of "lock-in" is a business problem and ought to be solved my the MBA's in my view.
- zozbot234 6y agoThere will always be a lot of use for large databases. PostgreSQL does provide some under-the-hood features for doing distributed db's (such as the PREPARE TRANSACTION extension) but the actual implementation work is left to the user - there's no such thing as a "one size fits all" solution in this domain.
- kumarvvr 6y agoExactly, so, what use cases is Oracle best suited for, situations where Postgres cannot be a good fit?
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoWhen you have a sore back from lugging around your wallet, and it needs lightening for your own good. Not that MSSQL isn't heading that way, and getting more weird and buggy all the time.
- marcosdumay 6y agoWouldn't it be great if there was a large system for integrating all those data based microservices, taking care of data coherence, type verification, and schema migration, all of that behind a standardized interface that every language supports?