https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/10/mariadb_migration/
For Oracle employee now working for a large bank and this is definitely a trend. We are trying to move off Oracle DB as well.
This does not bode well for Oracle.
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LOL @ MariaDB, basically a knock off of PostGresql
“Such a relief to move on to a better job at a real cloud vendor using modern products and methods.”
Congrats to you and agreed. I’m convinced Oracle’s entire tech org is doomed.
“And, of course, Oracle Support was never, helpful for solving any of our issues.”
The “least support” model will eventually backfire on you. I worked so hard to help support customers and it always felt like NOBODY had my back. Not mgmt. Not engineering. Certainly not LE or any of his minions. It was always “here’s some scotch tape and some chewing gum. Get it done!l”
Such a relief to move on to a better job at a real cloud vendor using modern products and methods.
Looks like VMWare is a loser here too. Also, an interestingly, they did NON choose autonomous DB. On the surface one might think ADB might be a good solution, but I’m guessing it’s ridiculous cost, and possible a soured overall relationship w/ Oracle were the final nails in Oracle’s coffin.
Some very VERY interesting take-aways
The FNI lead database administrator and architect told The Register: “About 40 or 50 per cent of my work beforehand was patching and maintenance, so [moving to DBaaS] has really cut down a lot of that overhead work by DBAs. Once we're actually in the cloud, it's really a shift to focusing on improving the database performance as opposed to just keeping the systems healthy.
About a year's worth of development work for a team of three or four DBAs, was a lot cheaper than continuing to pay the Oracle licences, he told us.
"In an established Oracle system, [it was] kind of like an insurmountable black box; there [were] a lot of things that just went wrong. And, of course, Oracle Support was never, helpful for solving any of our issues. And it was kind of just struggling to keep that running. MariaDB is running off of MySQL branch: it's understandable, it's manageable, it's not trying to hide things behind the scenes,"