Oracle Database
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“So looks like they overcome their limitations.”
“Autonomous DB can run on-premises or in any cloud, not just Oracle's cloud”
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“Oracle's external tables which turned out to be clear winner”
“His other projects like CodexBar and Oracle are great too.”
Caveats and dissent
“Oracle requires an opt-in(!) flag that is incomplete and configured on the server instead of the client”
“Every time I use Oracle, I regret it.”
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“the queries it can monitor live are a subset of all queries”
“Oracle database is essentially never used outside of government nowadays.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“DML can be parallelized and write masters scale horizontally”
“the Oracle cloud has great support for the Oracle Database”
“Oracle has something like this, and I worked on this project when I was there.”
“Disclosure: in the Oracle DB group, opinions are my own and not that of the company.”
“Most of these problems don't surface with a better database engine”
Threads where it came up
- Do You Even Need a Database? 3 mentions
- It's 2026, Just Use Postgres 3 mentions
- Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity 2 mentions
- Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email 2 mentions
- How Postgres DELETE can actually scale 1 mention
- Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts 1 mention
Also written as Oracle, oracle. Data: oracle-database.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“Oracle requires an opt-in(!) flag that is incomplete and configured on the server instead of the client”
“Every time I use Oracle, I regret it.”
“So looks like they overcome their limitations.”
“the queries it can monitor live are a subset of all queries”
“Oracle database is essentially never used outside of government nowadays.”
“Oracle can add missing indexes on the fly.”
“you should check out the prices to rent an Oracle DB and see how it compares”
> Synchronously updated materialized views... Oh yes, I'd love them too (if you're referring to, in Oracle slang, "...update on commit") - and it would be cool to have as well the option for a lazy update ("on demand" by taking into consideration only the records that have been changed since the last refresh, to handle multiple updates in a single pass - not sure how Oracle can achieve that technically...). This woul
“It never came to pass when we used Oracle”
“it is MS SQL, Oracle, DB2”
“who is not an issue on Oracle, SQL Server, or IBM DB2”
“Oracle can infer a schema from a collection of documents”
“their RDBMS has some truly astounding capabilities”
“Autonomous DB can run on-premises or in any cloud, not just Oracle's cloud”
“a bit like oracle...”
“and both of them were Postgres”
“Why use Oracle indeed....”
“Oracle's external tables which turned out to be clear winner”
“So narrow its enabled by default for all statements from the "big boy" commercial RDBMS's”
“thousands of lines of Oracle triggers that you had to edit inline in the web browser with no version control”
“I would never choose to use Oracle Database”
“I think Oracle is nicer but postgres does what I need for a lot less money!”
“Nobody would deploy Oracle Database for new systems.”
“it has never not met my needs, unlike Oracle or MySQL”
“we used an Oracle database to do job queue stuff.”
“I can’t even imagine what would happen if somebody like Ford wanted to get off of their SAP or Oracle solution.”
“His other projects like CodexBar and Oracle are great too.”
“core banking system designed in 80s on top of Oracle DB”
“I found Oracle to just be a lot more unwieldy from a tooling perspective”
“abominations like SAP and Oracle”
“co-signs https://github.com/steipete/oracle which lets you use your ChatGPT subscription”
“Barely any mention of Oracle or MS Sql Server”
“deep Oracle compatibility”
“Oracle takes most of my time with endless issues”
“This replaced a functioning $10k server.”
“then the price increases got too much and everyone who could switched to alternatives like MySQL or Postgres.”
“Oracle comes to mind- would ship with like 6-10 volumes of reference information”
“Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Flutter, Bash, AWK, Linux, Windows”
“Oracle is what Amazon Retail made a multi-year move away from ending in 2019”
“Charging license fees based on the amount of memory in the host machine”