#oow16: Oracle now goes after Amazon with the launch of new cloud data centers

Oracle Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison demonstrated that Amazon databases are 20 years behind the latest release of the Oracle Database in the Cloud. In his keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Ellison 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.

“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.”

Ellison also announced the availability of Oracle Database 12c Release 2 in the Oracle Cloud with the launch of the new Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service. This service provides the full enterprise edition of the Oracle Database running on the database-optimized Exadata infrastructure. Starting at just $175 per month, Ellison showed this Cloud service is lower cost than similar offerings from Amazon.

With the launch of Oracle Database 12c Release 2 in the Cloud first, Oracle has demonstrated that the Oracle Cloud is the most optimized, complete and integrated Cloud for Oracle Database.

The latest release provides organizations of all sizes with access to the world’s fastest, most scalable and reliable database technology in a cost-effective and open Cloud environment. In addition, the world’s first database includes a series of innovations that add state-of-the-art technology while preserving customer investments and supporting their transition to the Cloud.

“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,” he added.

Ellison shared detailed analysis during his keynote that showed how the new Oracle DBaaS delivers unparalleled performance for analytics, OLTP and mixed database workloads

Oracle says that it is the only vendor with true workload portability across on-premises and Cloud deployments. This helps ensure customers can continue to leverage their existing investment, keep costs down and easily benefit from the efficiency of Cloud. With proven continuous innovations and industry-leading performance across the entire platform from infrastructure to database, including support for mixed workloads, Oracle Data Management Cloud views itself as a leader today and in the future.

“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,” concluded Ellison.