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Whenever the PostgreSQL Mandlebrot comes up, I always show off my Oracle version. It was written independently (i.e., I didn't port the PostgreSQL version; I di

Whenever the PostgreSQL Mandlebrot comes up, I always show off my Oracle version. It was written independently (i.e., I didn't port the PostgreSQL version; I didn't know about it at the time) and I documented the process: http://xoph.co/20130917/mandelbrot-sql/ http://xoph.co/20130917/mandelbrot-sql/ Of course, it comes with a hefty dose of proprietary functionality. I think the newer versions of Oracle support recursive CTEs -- but fortunately, I don't have to deal with Oracle any more, so it's dead to me ;)

trentnelson 11y ago
> but fortunately, I don't have to deal with Oracle any more, so it's dead to me I recently did a project where I got to use Oracle 12c. Bit of a hump getting back into it (last time I used Oracle was 8 in the early 2000s), but, man, it is amazing what you can do with it when you leverage all of its power. I really hope they adjust their pricing model in the future to be friendly to non-billion-dollar corporations -- I'd love to use Oracle as the foundation for a startup, because the technology is decades ahead of where open source is, but, man, $48k/core... that's rough.