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4 oracle changing licensing to be more hostile toward virtualization, right around at VMware peak

• eastbound 4y ago
  5. Postgres having a greater feature set than Oracle (ie schemas not tied to users, for example), a perfect implementation of SQL92 norm, being consistent, and easy to install, while Oracle being a hell to install followed by Oracle playing the lawyer game to threaten companies…
  • Annatar 4y ago
    PostgreSQL still doesn't have nowhere near the features of Oracle: for example, it still cannot do synchronous multimaster replication, unless one buys Vertica.
    • tpetry 4y ago
      I believe the parent didn't mean the Oracle DB but Oracle MySQL. This makes the most sense as Oracle's acquisition of MySQL (Sun) was discussed before.
      • dx034 4y ago
        The described issues fit better to Oracle DB. Schemas tied to users is definitely the case for Oracle DB and MySQL isn't that hard to install.
    • lowwave 4y ago
      for sure, PostgreSQL is feature complete as Oracle, however it is the best open source db that is close enough. And not everyone needs multi-master replication or automated materialize view, etc. Many feature in Oracle can be build custom via functions and store procedures in Postgres.
      • Annatar 4y ago