back to article No, Andy, AWS and Oracle aren't in a database death match

Speaking at his opening keynote for the 2016 re:Invent conference, AWS chief Andy Jassy made a point of going after Oracle. The repeated jabs at the Redwood City goliath and its iconic boss Larry Ellison came fast as Jassy showed off new AWS database offerings, and raised speculation that perhaps AWS and Oracle would be going …

  1. Lars Silver badge
    Happy

    PostgresSQL

    To be more precise.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: PostgresSQL

      PostgreSQL to be even more precise.

      1. Lars Silver badge
        Meh

        Re: PostgresSQL

        Sorry about that, as they say there is a lot to learn from commentards on ElReg.

        But I do get now that I tried.

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        restore database postgres sql - YouTube

        How to backup PostgresSQL database - Maplesoft

        Could I claim "Dear child has many names" to feel less stupid.

  2. Lusty

    Amazon

    Sorry, that's just not the way Amazon work. If you can't see that then do some research. Amazon have a long history of putting things in front of customers that customers want at a price they want to pay. Amazon have never been particularly agressive because they know success will come - it's deep in their culture.

    AWS have absolutely no need to pick a fight with Oracle, customers will move to AWS when they are ready and Oracle will believe it's a price or feature issue and pour marketing and development money into it. The reality will be that customers would just rather deal with the quiet competent AWS than the shouty, expensive, "enterprise" Oracle. The fact that Oracle feel the need to stamp everything with the word enterprise to justify the price says a lot too. It's just a computer with a database, the enterprise is in the workload you put on it.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Not just for new workloads

    I am _right now_ skiving off planning an Oracle -> AWS port by reading el Reg. The client will save several hundred K per year in support and hosting costs, with a payback time for the work measured in months. It's not trivial, but it's not that hard either. There's a lot of SQL to port/validate from Oracle to PostgreSQL, and some decisions to be made around failover and resilience.

  5. JLV

    Directly? No. But as a showcase for postgresql? Which has an Oracle compatibility mode off-cloud? Good way to get exposure. Again, not for migrations but rather for new, secondary, projects at first.

    Being free and rock-solid, postgresql can easily operate in supporting roles, as long as IT people have some familiarity with it. AWS will help, though the folks on it are likely already savvier than the typical "oh, just put it on Access" crowd.

    Mind you, easier installation and admin would go a long way to help postgres. It's not really hard, but you do have to look under the covers a bit.

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