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Oracle is very powerful. As a developer I found it easy to work with. But the cost to run in production is eye-watering. IDK how their licensing works today but

by throwaway201103 6y ago

Oracle is very powerful. As a developer I found it easy to work with. But the cost to run in production is eye-watering. IDK how their licensing works today but in the past it was free to use for evaluation or for developing a prototype. Once you were "gaining business value" i.e. using it even if only internally to develop a real product, you were supposed to be paying for it.

blendo 6y ago
Oracle XE is free for production use, but it only makes sense if a) you are already familiar with Oracle, and b) you have a very small data set: “Oracle Database 18c XE supports up to: 3 Pluggable Databases 2 CPUs for foreground processes 2GB of RAM (SGA and PGA combined) 12GB of user data on disk (irrespective of compression factor)”