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By the end of the day it’s not black or white there are trade offs. So special hardware is simply a no go zone for me. What happens if you want to leave the clo
by kosolam 1y ago
By the end of the day it’s not black or white there are trade offs. So special hardware is simply a no go zone for me. What happens if you want to leave the cloud and host on premises its the activation of the lock-in mechanism. Thanks I can manage one solution or another using one of the open source technologies. It’s all trade offs.
- mike_hearn 1y agoYou don't have to use the special hardware, it's just faster and easier if you do. And you the customized hardware deal pre-dates the cloud: you can buy the pre-built racks and have them wheeled into a self-hosted datacenter if you want. That's called ExaData. But if you want to run the DB on your own VMs or bare metal, you can do that. It doesn't have any DRM so from time to time you'll be expected to run some scripts that check your usage and reports back, to ensure you've been paying for what you use. But otherwise it's operationally no different to an open source DB. The open source aspect makes a difference in terms of who you pay for support (if anyone), what quality of support you get, things like that.
- kosolam 1y agoGot it. Thanks for the explanation, I truly appreciate it. However, there is also the lock-in aspect?
- mike_hearn 1y agoWell, no moreso than for any other RDBMS. It implements standard SQL, exporting your data is easy. The only lockin comes from using features that other databases don't have, but that tradeoff exists with any kind of software including open source.