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This is certainly all true, and with Oracle, absolutely everything is negotiable. Nobody pays list. It still isn't cheap. If you are going the Oracle route, you might even consider hiring a consultant to do the buying, because relationships and knowing the Oracle way can make a huge difference.

Also, Oracle Database itself is more than just an RDBMS and has an enormous amount of features that have no analogs in Postgres or any other non-commercial system. Take a look Oracle's data warehousing components, like advanced analytical SQL, pattern matching, and the especially cool modeling: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DWHSG/sqlmodel.htm#DWHS...