Oracle has a lot of catching up to do in the cloud.
If Barnes & Noble said it was going to undercut Amazon on book sales, would you believe them?
The same may go for Oracle and cloud services. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Sept. 20 that his company’s new database-as-a-service is faster and cheaper than Amazon Web Services, but analysts say Oracle has a lot of catching up to do in the cloud marketplace.
In a keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco, Ellison shared benchmark test results comparing Oracle Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) to Amazon. Oracle said it performed up to 105x faster for analytics workloads, 35x faster for online transaction processing (OLTP), and 1000x faster for mixed workloads compared to Amazon DBaaS.
Ellison also said that the Oracle Cloud is optimized for running Oracle Database while Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not. Also, an Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service, at $175 per month, is cheaper than AWS, he said.
In the same announcement, Oracle unveiled 19 new cloud services, including for the IoT, analytics, big data, and identity.
“Oracle’s new technologies will drive the cloud databases and infrastructure of the future,” said Ellison. “Amazon is decades behind in every database area that matters, and their systems are more closed than mainframe computers.”
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SOURCE: RT Insights
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