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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
by 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.