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This does compete somewhat with Amazon's SimpleDB offering. This is getting interesting for Amazon and Google - with their offerings do they want to offer foun

This does compete somewhat with Amazon's SimpleDB offering. This is getting interesting for Amazon and Google - with their offerings do they want to offer foundation compute/storage services, or services higher up the value chain (i.e. databases, whole apps)? If they push down the path of offering both, then they are potentially competing with their own customers (at the two ends). (As an aside) Amazon use Oracle in their own infrastructure: http://www.oracle.com/customers/snapshots/amazon-oracle-berkeley-db-casestudy.pdf http://www.oracle.com/customers/snapshots/amazon-oracle-berk...

briansmith 18y ago
1. SimpleDB doesn't really compete with Oracle. SimpleDB it isn't ACID, Oracle is ACID before it is anything else. Oracle has its own programming language, XML features, a very advanced SQL dialect, and many other features that SimpleDB lacks. Similarly, SimpleDB has a distributed replication feature that Oracle doesn't have. It is interesting that Amazon uses Oracle AND Oracle BerkeleyDB. I wonder how Oracle TimesTen compares to BerkeleyDB for this use case.