Questions about Postgres and Oracle
- From: Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 09:33:02 -0700
I learned yesterday that our new billing application is being written to
use a Postgres database instead of the Oracle database it currently uses.
Somehow or other (development hasn't figured it out yet), they will pull
data from the Oracle database and load it into Postgres. I know nothing
about Postgres, but I'm wondering how simple it will be to manage. Also do
reads block writes?
I also learned that development plans to move away from Oracle by breaking
up and rewriting the current convoluted, complex application and building a
lot of small Postgres databases to handle the various pieces and somehow
joining them all together to replicate what we currently do with the Oracle
database because "Oracle DBs are an outdated, monolithic way to handle data
and not at all scalable". I've never heard this before yesterday and
wonder how other companies are positioning themselves regarding the future
of their databases. Can anyone shed a little light on the subject or point
me to a good resource?
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Sandy
Transzap, Inc.
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