I just looked at the Oracle price list: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/

I just looked at the Oracle price list: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-... Processor License cost (excludes support): * Standard Edition: $17,500 * Enterprise Edition: $47,500 (that's the one with Materialized View Query Rewrite) * Partitioning option: $11,500 * Advanced compression: $11,500 (basic compression is apparently slow?) Per processor. This is why all these other databases exist. Very few businesses, certainly not many startups, have the kinds of value of the data stored to warrant that kind of cost.