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#oow16: It is Cloud War on Amazon
It has been three days already at Oracle Open World and Larry Ellison Executive Chairman and CTO of Oracle delivered…
It has been three days already at Oracle Open World and Larry Ellison Executive Chairman and CTO of Oracle delivered his key notes majorly on Cloud Technologies and what Oracle was doing to keep its competitors at bay.
It seems like Oracle has declared a soft war on Amazon, whom actually Ellison termed as Oracle’s biggest rival on IaaS platform but through the latest release of the Oracle Database in the Cloud, Oracle seeks to beat Amazon in the Cloud Game .
In his second keynote presentation last evening at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Ellison deepened his critique of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a cloud environment for databases.
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He shared benchmark test results that showed that Oracle Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) performed up to 105X faster for Analytics workloads, 35X faster for online transaction processing (OLTP), and 1000+X faster for mixed workloads compared to Amazon DBaaS. Ellison also showed that the Oracle Cloud is optimized for running Oracle Database while Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not. An Oracle Database running on the Oracle Cloud performed up to 24X faster than an Oracle Database running on AWS.
Here are some of the quotes made by Oracle CTO, during his presentation for Amazon Web Services, its Cloud rival:
“Oracle’s new technologies will drive the Cloud databases and infrastructure of the future,” said Ellison. “Amazon are decades behind in every database area that matters, and their systems are more closed than mainframe computers.”
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“We are preserving your existing investment and allowing you to move it to the Cloud where you can save money, run faster, more securely, and more reliability than you can in your own datacenter. This is a big deal and a big difference. You simply cannot do this with Amazon. Moving applications and data into Amazon is a lot of work.”
“At my age, even I can remember how many places Redshift, Aurora and Dynamo run on: simply one Amazon.”
“Amazon Web Services are simply not optimized for the Oracle Database. I’ll go further than that. Amazon Web Services aren’t optimized for their own databases either, as you will see. It doesn’t get better, it gets worse. Amazon, who pioneered infrastructure as a service, is still delivering first-generation infrastructure as a service.”
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“With our second generation of IaaS, we are leapfrogging Amazon in terms of cost and performance, and in terms of reliability and security.”
“Oracle continues to innovate as we move from Internet computing to Cloud computing. So if a Cloud database is in your future, and I think it is, which Cloud is best for database? Why do you think I’m asking that question? I have an opinion. The Oracle Database is optimized for Cloud computing.”
“Our whole strategy over the years has been to make your data and workloads portable, so you can migrate. So you have a lot of choices in a current generation of computing. And then, when a new generation of computing comes along, you can migrate to that as well. Customers always have choices.”
“There is no choice with Amazon. You run on Redshift. It only runs on Amazon. There is no choice whatsoever. Once you move in to AWS, you cannot move out. If they raise prices, get out your checkbook.”
“We develop Linux, our own version of Linux, open source, contribute back to the community. We develop MySQL, open source, contribute back to the community. They don’t do that. AWS is more closed than an IBM mainframe.”
“The Exadata Express Cloud Service is our new entry-level version of the Oracle Database in the Cloud. It’s priced very aggressively at $175 a month.”
“Speed of light is not instantaneous. If you’re in London and accessing a server in Phoenix, it takes longer than if you’re in London and accessing a server in Scotland. So it’s very important to keep the data and the datacenters close to the users. And we do that by building these regions all over the world.”
“We run on premise. We run in Amazon. We run in IBM. We run—we run at Microsoft. We run every place. We give you lots of choices. We run on the hardware of your choice. We run on specialized machines like Exadata. We can put our public cloud behind your firewall, or you can use our public cloud, lots and lots and lots of choices.”
“Amazon has three databases, Aurora for OLTP, Redshift for analytics and DynamoDB, which is it’s NoSQL database. All three run only in AWS, no place else.”
“Why does Oracle Public Cloud run the Oracle Database so much better than the Amazon Public Cloud? Well, on our infrastructure, if you look at this, our storage performance, our I/Os per second, are eight times better than Amazon.”