I've developed with Oracle before and it's a good database. It has its gotchas like anything, but I respect it. However, this presentation is all PR blather.

I've developed with Oracle before and it's a good database. It has its gotchas like anything, but I respect it. However, this presentation is all PR blather. For example, in the MySQL Replication Limitations section, they don't even mention how Oracle does it differently. For example, if not async replication, do you do synchronous replication? So, when one change needs to be made, you hold everything up until it can be replicated? You're claiming "zero-data loss capability". That isn't possible. Let's say I insert something and before the server can even log that it happened (yeah, logs need to be written to disk and that takes time even if it's soooo minuscule) the server dies. Well, that's data loss. Online updates are awesome! MySQL can be a pain sometimes. Oracle is not some sort of magic.