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Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 (cnbc.com)
Amazon plans to be completely off Oracle's proprietary database software by the first quarter of 2020, reports CNBC. The plans come after the company moved most of its infrastructure internally to Amazon Web Services. From the report: Amazon began moving off Oracle about four or five years ago, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the project is confidential. Some parts of Amazon's core shopping business still rely on Oracle, the person said, and the full migration should wrap up in about 14 to 20 months. Another person said that Amazon had been considering a departure from Oracle for years before the transition began but decided at the time that it would require too much engineering work with perhaps too little payoff. The primary issue Amazon has faced on Oracle is the inability for the database technology to scale to meet Amazon's performance needs, a person familiar with the matter said. Another person, who said the move could be completed by mid-2019, added that there hasn't been any development of new technology relying on Oracle databases for quite a while.
Oracle can keep circling the drain.
Oracle's profits are at record highs. Never underestimate the power of the dark side.
> The primary issue Amazon has faced on Oracle is the inability for the database technology to scale to meet Amazon's performance needs, a person familiar with the matter said.
This is how big tech companies do a BURN!
And it couldn't have happened to a nicer megacorp.
Whenever I meet someone that uses Oracle ERP, I always ask them if they are happy with it, and would they still make the same decision if they could do it over again. So far, this many people have said yes: 0.
Nobody is happy with their ERP.
we'll never be rid of oracle, if a company such as amazon even has a though time migrating away, imagine the chances of a normal sized company to do so.
the best advice would be to never use it. like a hard drug, it is hard to stop once you've started.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
A certain Fortune 500 company I work for is also massively reducing the presence of Oracle and MS databases for the same reason. Today I can fill out a simple web form and within minutes have a fully provisioned Postgres database complete with dashboards automated backups, etc... Behind the scenes it's a fully automated service with a restful endpoint so teams can even automate it if they need to. On the other hand if I want an Oracle or MS database I'm going to have some very difficult conversations with the DBA's, a VP or two, then have to wait quite a while for anything to happen.
Given the current state no one is doing new development on Oracle or MS databases, and we won't even spin up a new Windows server either unless there's no choice. We just keep turning off the old Oracle and MS stuff and replacing it with open source technology.
In the past few years we've saved tens of millions of dollars each year by making the switch to using very few contractors, and a lot of open source. Amazing how hiring talented engineers, empowering them, and giving them an open source tech stack can actually save the company money.