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		victor106 on Nov 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What If Amazon.com Actually Is a Horrible Website? Off topic: I watched[1] this recently where Larry Ellison talks about Amazon.com still using Oracle DB and that when they tried to stop using Oracle they had huge problems. Anyone know to what extent Amazon.com still uses Oracle DB? I know they said they would be completely off Oracle by 2020. Is Oracle really that good for mission critical applications that no open source DB can match? [1] https://youtu.be/xrzMYL901AQ

NicoJuicy on Nov 23, 2018 [–]

They recently migrated everything away from Oracle and have tools for others now.

The problems were mostly associated with Oracle specific syntax or implementations, nothing else

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