AWS goes after Oracle with new PostgresSQL support in Aurora There were a lot of jokes and comments at Oracles expense today at the AWS re:Invent conference but perhaps the boldest statement came when AWS announced it was adding PostgresSQL support to the AWS Aurora database making iteasier to move an Oracle database to the AWS cloud. Even as Oracle makes its own move to the cloud it is still held up as the prime example of the prototypical legacy vendor. As AWS CEO Andy Jassy said without mentioning Oracle by name Commercial grade databases are proprietary expensive and require vendor lock-in. Builders dont like this and its why enterprises have been moving as fast as they can to open source [options] like MariaDB MySQLand PostgresSQL Jassy told the re:Invent audience. But moving came with a performance trade-off until Amazon answeredwhen it announcedAurora two years ago. We built Amazon Aurora with speed and availability of commercial databases with the pricingand [freedom] of open source Jassy said. Whats more he claimed they delivered that at a tenth of the price. Up until today the company was only offering this option to MySQL users but there was a huge demand for PostgresSQL especially since it is compatible with Oracle RDS databases which many enterprise customers are using. To answer that demand the company announced a preview of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. When youre creating your Aurora database instance you simply chose the PostgresSQL option then specify your database details and youre good to go. Jassy made it sound like making the move from Oracle now that Aurorahad the PostgresSQL support would be a fairly simply matter because of the semantic similarities between PostgresSQL and the Oracle database. The proof will be in the testing though. Its worth noting that Oracle believes its in the best position to help customers move to the cloud by offering its own cloud versions of its database products. Its also worth noting that Holger Mueller an analyst at Constellation Research pointed out on Twitter that while AWS was boasting about 14000 database customers it was a skirmish in the database wars meaning it still has a ways to go to catch Oracle all jokes and comments aside. Lets block ads! (Why?) – Repost from: techcrunch Post – New Upgrade !! [V 1.5.3] U can download IT app for android from bit.ly/ITapp-v153
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