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U.K. Government Seeking To End Reliance On Oracle
jfruh writes: The U.K. Cabinet Office has reportedly asked government departments and agencies to try to find ways to end their reliance on Oracle software, a move motivated by the truly shocking number of Oracle licenses currently being paid for by the British taxpayer. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs alone has paid £1.3 million (US$2 million) per year for some 2 million Oracle licenses, or about 200 licenses per staff member.
create Department of PostgreSQL.
They should replace it with a nice free, open source solution like MySQL Enterprise Edition to get paid support. Then they'll never have to pay Oracle another penny (Or pence or whatever they call it in the UK)
WHAT! Are you suggesting that /. readers would leap at a chance to rip into Oracle?
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Yes, I am confused, in my experience 2 million Oracle licenses should cost between $2 and $20 BILLION dollars
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I manage a team of database developers and database administrators. We live Big Data. We breathe Big Data. Big Data is everything to us. If the data isn't Big, we don't touch it.
We only use the best tools of the trade, and those are NoSQL tools. I know some people like to joke about NoSQL being "web scale", but it's no joke. In our experience, NoSQL is the only way to really work with Big Data.
A good rule of thumb is that if you're using SQL, you're working with Small Data. I was at a conference last year, and some schmuck started talking to me about his 2 peterbyte database. He said his team used Postgrass and SQL. It doesn't matter how big your database is! If you're using SQL then you aren't working with Big Data! 2 peterbytes of SQL data is way smaller than 2 peterbytes of NoSQL Big Data.
It makes no sense to me why anyone would use SQL databases. They are old tech. They aren't the latest and greatest, like NoSQL databases are. Like the CAP Theorem states, NoSQL databases are better because they're "Capable of handling Big Data", "Always the best choice for Big Data", and "Perfect for Big Data".
It's 2015 now. We have better tools available to us than we had in 1975. You don't need to use SQL databases any more. Use a NoSQL database, and get all of the benefits it gives you, including the CAP Theorem. Big Data is important, so you should only trust it to NoSQL databases.
You do realize that Oracle owns MySQL, right?
They should run it on Sun hardware to stay even farther away from Oracle.
Pretty soon they'll just be able to move all their databases and schemas and stuff to systemd. Problem solved!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
yeah you can even save more by putting it on VirtualBox too.
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