I sense you've never worked in a suit & tie enterprise...
If you have backups, upgrade, access to monitoring tools, etc. 125$ / month is just 2 hours max of developer time.
That's a bargain and your standard Oracle admin should just feel threatened :-) (provided the company is willing to put its data on a server far away of its control room, which, I guess, doesn't happen so often :-))
so a bargain if you actually can make use of it...
It happens more than you would think. Big companies tend to have two classes of DB — the big special DB everyone uses, and then utility DBs (frequently hundreds or thousands) that devs use for smaller scale projects. They're usually pretty happy letting the tangential apps run elsewhere.
It's probably more accurate to say that people who buy Oracle don't read HN. Developers that use Oracle might read HN, and these are the people that are driving the future of databases. There's a reason most new DBs have an open source business model. :)
People who buy Oracle are likely reading management publications, and possibly Gigaom. They're not reading technical discussions of databases.
For the same price you can get 4-8GB RAM and 10x the storage on RDS, AWS's managed relational database solution. However, Compose is going for a different performance profile, not the typical CRUD app.
And DBA services, disaster recovery, redundancy, tools, etc. Sometimes it makes more sense to let developers run their own databases, or hire dedicated DB operations staff, but usually it doesn't. :D
If you have backups, upgrade, access to monitoring tools, etc. 125$ / month is just 2 hours max of developer time.
That's a bargain and your standard Oracle admin should just feel threatened :-) (provided the company is willing to put its data on a server far away of its control room, which, I guess, doesn't happen so often :-))
so a bargain if you actually can make use of it...