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I seriously doubt that the author has 20 years of Oracle DBA experience yet not know why Oracle takes up more disk space that Postgres. There are so many featur
by downvoteme1 6y ago
I seriously doubt that the author has 20 years of Oracle DBA experience yet not know why Oracle takes up more disk space that Postgres.
There are so many features in Oracle for which there is no equivalent in Postgres.
-Sharding
-Java Pool
-Oracle Apex
-DB containers and pluggable databases
Many more that I am too lazy to list .
All of these come pre packaged with Oracle.
If you are in an Organization that has 1000s of Oracle db’s per org, you quickly understand that license cost are a minute number but dba and developers are much more expensive .
- kakwa_ 6y agoLicense cost tend to be negligeable compared to the cost of devs, dbas,sysadmins, etc, that's true. But at the same time, it's a can be a huge speed bump in term of procurement. Waiting several weeks for accounting to accept the procurement of a license can really damage business or development speed. It also adds significant admin load to track the license pool correctly and can represent a legal risk when inevitably, someone starts exceeding the terms of license (db size or db clones, or increase in hardware).
- leandrod 6y agoAnd vendor lock-in with them. With PostgreSQL, one gets freedom to add your own, also free components, and even to substitute another ISO-compliant DBMS.
- jacques_chester 6y agoI used ApEx in a previous job. I don't count it as a feature.