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by vosper 1183 days ago
> 1. Lock in -> A database change is hard to do even for extremely focused tech companies. For companies whose core business is not technology, it might not even make sense to bother.

Just to back this up - it took Amazon years to complete the project of moving off Oracle, and this is a company that had already built and/or hosted myriad database platforms in AWS. They had no lack of expertise.

> We migrated 75 petabytes of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases to multiple AWS database services including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Redshift.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-...