Amazon's Move Off Oracle Caused Prime Day Outage in One of its Biggest Warehouses, Internal Report Says (cnbc.com)

Amazon is learning how hard it can be to move off of Oracle's database software. From a report: On Prime Day, while the e-retailer was dealing with a major website glitch that slowed sales, the company was also dealing with a technical problem in Ohio at one of its biggest warehouses, leading to thousands of delayed package deliveries, according to an internal report obtained by CNBC. The problem was in large part due to Amazon's migration from Oracle's database to its own technology, the documents show. The outage underscores the challenge Amazon faces as it looks to move completely off Oracle's database by 2020, and how difficult it is to re-create that level of reliability. It also shows that Oracle's database is more efficient in some aspects than Amazon's rival software, a point that Oracle will likely emphasize during this week's annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

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MongoDB is webscale

[goombah99]

I use bussiness management products from oracle with an underlying oracle database. I feel like sometimes the IT department must not be shoveling enough coal into the boiler or something beacuse this antiquated inflexible interface just stalls all the time and very frequently has to go down for some sort of synchronization. It's slick like Amazon's web site. I don't understand why Oracle even exists given my experience with it.