Amazon launches RDS for Oracle

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How long before a YC company starts selling slices of an Oracle DBA in the cloud?

I wonder if the AWS-Oracle license prohibits this.

I mean DBA, "Database Administrator". I think you mean something different, like a schema, which might be more interesting

Yes, we were talking about different things.

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interestung that the premium over mysql seems to be 0 in the "bring your own license" mode, and less than 50% when getting the license with the service. So a single "large" resrved instance would only cost 400 dollars more a year.

The "with license" service only includes Oracle "Standard Edition One" which lacks lots of features. It doesn't have partitioned indexing or RAC for example -- among other missing features.

Why should it be any different? Applying patches is likely the same effort for Oracle as for MySQL. If they hadn't done this, some startup would have tried to feed off the arbitrage.

So it's a single Oracle DB ? No RAC ?

RAC uses shared disks (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/clustering/overvi...) So unless EBS or an EBS-like service will allow the attachment of a volume to multiple instances or Oracle changes how RAC works, there won't be Oracle RAC on AWS.

RAC requires multicast.

Does it run on EBS?

I'm surprised, I thought Larry Ellison wasn't sure what the cloud was. Has he finally worked out what it is or has he stopped spouting FUD now that he's worked out how to make it work for Oracle?</snark>

I think this will prove to be a smart move for them in the long run.

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