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by modoc 2243 days ago
I STRONGLY dislike Oracle the company, and the Oracle DB is quite complex, however Oracle RAC (HA) beats the pants off anything else out there as far as performant, reliable HA. Oracle DB also has been the leader performance wise for complex queries and large datasets. All of that is very important in my niche (enterprise grade eCommerce).
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thda 2243 days ago
> Oracle DB also has been the leader performance wise for complex queries and large datasets

SQL server has a column store type of storage, and major innovations like 'froid'. Oracle is not such a strong leader there. Also, on a whole lot of workloads clickhouse is much superior.

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tomnipotent 2243 days ago
> whole lot of workloads clickhouse is much superior.

ClickHouse is a read-only analytics database and overlaps with Oracle in only those areas, otherwise Oracle blows it out of the water.

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derefr 2242 days ago
Yes, and? If you're choosing a tool to deploy for that workload, why would you deploy Oracle instead of ClickHouse? The same question goes for any other analogous workload. Why use something that's second-best at 100 different jobs (Oracle), when you could just choose the best-in-class tool for the exact job you're doing each time?

Especially since, in the particular use-case we're talking about here (data warehousing), the whole paradigm and all the tooling is built around the expectation of ETL pipelines copying+transforming+"cubing" data around from OLTP (or data-lake) systems to OLAP systems. "Everything being part of one solution from one vendor" doesn't make one whit of difference in that case, since the whole architecture is expected to be built around having a one-way pipeline of mutually-opaque interoperating systems, so any two pipeline stages that can manage to speak to one-another at all can't really be any "more" well-integrated than that.

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tomnipotent 2241 days ago
> Especially since, in the particular use-case we're talking about here (data warehousing)

I didn't read any context of data warehousing except for the ClickHouse comment.

When comparing CH to Oracle, there's at best a 10% overlap. Within that overlap, CH is pretty amazing in what it can offer. However, for the remaining 90% Oracle kicks the shit out of CH.

CH does not have to worry about being an OLTP database and everything that entails (transactions, MVCC etc.) That means CH gets to take a LOT of shortcuts to offer what it does.

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thda 2241 days ago
I thought that by large datasets you meant TB of data that we see in analytics. And in this area clickhouse is growing and coming to the big companies I work for, one way or another. postgresql handles the OLTP decently enough. That leaves only niches for oracle.
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tomnipotent 2241 days ago
> I thought that by large datasets you meant TB

Oracle DB has no problems with TB-sized datasets, and if you have that kind of data you're probably not worried about Oracle-sized licenses.

> That leaves only niches for oracle.

Why do people keep beating this dead horse? Oracle DB is backing a non-trivial % of global GDP in a large number of Fortune 500's. It's not niche, it's just not a tool you use for hosting WordPress, Magento, and RoR apps.

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